EECA Youth Red Ribbon Team launched the song “Together” in their countries on the occasion of the World AIDS Day - 2014. The clip was broadcasted on musical channel ELLO, and Facebook and twitter pages of the Red Ribbon Team and UN Radio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RlRVOF9G0s&feature=youtu.be (3000 likes so far). Author of music and text: Teo Yury Vashuk, Red Ribbon Envoy from Belarus, Semi-finalist of Eurovision, Artist of 2014 year in Belarus.

World AIDS Day in South Sudan. A ribbon made of lighting candles.

Jamaica Governor General (centre) with UN Special Envoy, Edward Greene, Dr Kevin Harvey, Permanent Secretary Ministry of Health, Kate Spring, UNAIDS Country Director and other Jamaican Officials after issuing the Jamaica World AIDS Day Proclamation on 28 November at Kings House, Kingston Jamaica.

World AIDS Day in Haiti. President of a network of people living with HIV and her daughter holding a banner with the key message of this year’s commemoration: "AIDS, I will not be infected and I will not infect others. Get tested!”.

World AIDS Day 2014 in the Gambia.

Students in Honduras observe World AIDS Day.

Pauline Gundiza and Adiona Maboreke performing the World AIDS Day Zimbabwe theme song “Stepping up the pace: Getting to Zero in Africa”, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

HIV programme managers, people living with HIV and key populations, and college students collectively made a red ribbon to show personal commitment to the new national 90-90-90 targets toward ending the AIDS epidemic in Viet Nam.

HIV prevention education in Egypt.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection visiting Protect the Goal booths. Ghana.

Students in Uzbekistan are excitedly queuing to make a contribution to a discrimination-free world campaign.

For World AIDS Day, UNAIDS China held “An AIDS-Free Generation” event engaging three young singers’ support from “The Voice of China” and representatives from co-organizers officially opened the “Danlan Testing Room”, and lighted a red ribbon over each of the 15 million users of Blued – a mobile app for the MSM community, calling for all society members to show their support for adolescents and young people with no discrimination, and together achieve an AIDS-free generation.

Drivers being educated on HIV protection as part of World AIDS Day events in Ghana.

World AIDS Day activities in Algeria.

Vietnamese college students participating in a flash-mob performance promoting healthier life styles, HIV prevention and zero discrimination.

As part of the World AIDS Day commemoration, ILO staff in Geneva formed a human red ribbon at ILO headquarters in support of people living with and affected by HIV worldwide.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Sri Lanka.

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

World AIDS Day 2014 in Mongolia.

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

World AIDS Day activities in Algeria.

Malawi UNAIDS country director Amakobe Sande addresses a crowd in the Karonga district and encouraged everyone to play their part in ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.

World AIDS Day in Panama City.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Viet Nam.

Undergoing HIV testing as part of World AIDS Day events in Ghana.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Togo.

Prime Minister of Gabon gets an explanation on female condom during World AIDS Day 2014.

Tour-Press-Talk-show which combined press-conferences, HIV rapid tests promotion, HIV quizzes and actions travelled thought the country during the week from November 25th - 28th. During the Tour-Press-Talk-show the Deputy Minister of Health and many other participants got HIV express test. The Gala event was live broadcasted on the main national TV channel on December 1st, followed by press-conference and talk-show. Tour-Press-Talk-show gathered key personalities from the National HIV/AIDS Prevention Department, Local Authorities, UNAIDS in Belarus, UNDP GF GIU, Belarusian Society of PLHIV, as well as Belarusian pop-star singers, popular TV anchors, and actor Olesya Gribok - member of the UNAIDS Youth Red-Ribbon Team.

HIV prevention education in Egypt.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Guyana. Credit: Ulelli Verbeke

Vera Brezhneva and Vinay P. Saldanha at the press conference devoted to the appointment of Vera as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Eastern Europe and Central Asia in Moscow, Russian Federation

Free HIV testing at the Central Mosque in Ghana.

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

World AIDS Day 2014 in Guyana. Credit: Ulelli Verbeke

UNAIDS staff in Pakistan participated in various interviews and talk shows to raise awareness about HIV and share UNAIDS' contribution to the HIV response in the country.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Guinea-Bissau.

World AIDS Day 2014 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director Jan Beagle participated, together with the Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), in World AIDS Day commemorations at the ILO headquarters in Geneva on 1 December to highlight the importance of fast tracking the AIDS response to reach the right people in the right places. A focus of the ILO event was its VCT@Work campaign that aims to reach five million workers with VCT by 2015.

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

World AIDS Day 2014 in Fiji.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Indonesia.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Mongolia.

Charity Giyava of UNAIDS talks to the Commissioner of Social Affairs, Mustapha Sidiki Kaloko and the Zimbabwe Health Minister David Parirenyatwa at the UNCT Exhibition Stand in Victoria Falls at the Joint Zimbabwe/AU WAD commemorations.

Young People from local NGOs in Agadir celebrating the WAD under the theme “close the gap”. Credit photo, Hicham Raziki, UNDP/Morocco

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

In commemoration of World AIDS Day, Professor Sheila Tlou, Director, UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, engaged several prestigious media houses, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to discuss the new UNAIDS targets to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.

Official handover ceremony of the new Mobile clinic to Kyrgyz Republic in the framework of the Regional Cooperation Programme funded by the Russian Federation, 27 November 2014, Moscow, Russia

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

UNAIDS Country Director for Uzbekistan Lev Zohrabyan showed his commitment to Zero Discrimination and called on students to join the campaign.

A Bishop in Ghana commends the work of volunteers in the AIDS response.

Ghana Minister addressing mothers as part of World AIDS Day events.

Red Ribbon Walk. Ghana.

World AIDS Day in Nigeria. The First Lady of Nasarawa State, Salamatu Tanko Al-Makura, receives her Certificate of Appointment as a Special Advocate for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nasarawa State, from the UNAIDS Country Director for Nigeria, Bilali Camara. The UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, appointed Mrs. Al-Makura a UNAIDS Special Advocate until November 30, 2015.

The League of Arab States hosted a World AIDS Day event for the Middle East and North Africa region.

March in Honduras in solidarity for people living with HIV.

Actress Yosra advocating for regular HIV testing during World AIDS Day activities in the Middle East and North Africa.

Scouts in the Middle East and North Africa region participating in World AIDS Day activities.

Winning students of the HIV awareness contest received special Zero Discrimination gifts from the UNAIDS country office in Uzbekistan

UN staff in Fiji celebrating a World AIDS Day event organised by UN Cares.

Students and volunteers in Uzbekistan spread the messages of Closing the Gap, Fast Track and Zero Discrimination.

A recognition award is given to Red Ribbon Award winner Farzad Jalali in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

World AIDS Day 2014 in Viet Nam.

Demonstration organized by ACT UP Paris to commemorate World AIDS Day 2014. Hundreds of participants gathered together at the Place de la République in Paris on 30 November 2014. Credit: UNAIDS

After leading a World AIDS Day celebration for students with their active participation in an HIV awareness contest and Zero Discrimination campaign and launching a fundraiser devoted to women and children living with HIV at the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), the representative of the Regional Red Ribbon Team for Uzbekistan and a prominent Uzbek singer Jassur Mirsagatov was awarded a certificate of acknowledgement by UNAIDS Country Director Lev Zohrabyan.

World AIDS Day in Venezuela. MUSAS, an organization working for women's heath, gets the Red Ribbon Award.

Community members remembering those who passed on to AIDS at a candle light memorial organized by the Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV on the the eve of World AIDS Day 2014, Chinotimba Hall, Victoria Falls

World AIDS Day 2014 in the Gambia.

Press conference on the WAD 2014 in ITAR-TASS news agency with the key Russian partners. Bolot Dzunusov, Ambassador of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Russian Federation; Vinay P. Saldana, RST UNAIDS; Andrey Bokarev, Ministry of finance, RF; Vadim Pokrovsly, Russian Federal AIDS Center; Larisa Dementeva, Rospotrebnadzor, RF. 27 November 2014, Moscow, Russia