SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLKIT:
World AIDS Day 2022 | African Union Commission Commemoration Event & March
#SaveTheDate
The #AfricanUnion Commission joins the world to commemorate #WorldAIDSDay2022 and
re-ignite the
political commitment to end #AIDS as a public health threat
in #Africa by 2030. Join the conversation: tinyurl.com/4vcpax9v
About #WorldAIDSDay2022
The theme for the 2022 World AIDS Day is “Equalize”.
We can only beat #AIDS by ending the #inequalities
that drive the epidemic.
This year marks over three decades since two public health officers co-founded “World AIDS Day” as the first international day for global health in 1988. It remains significant for the HIV response as communities unite globally to remember the lives lost to AIDS and recommit to the fight against the disease.
“Equalize” is a call to action: a prompt to address the inequalities that impede the fight against HIV/AIDS
.
Today, HIV prevalence is not because of a lack of knowledge or tools but because of structural inequalities that obstruct proven solutions to HIV prevention and treatment.
In Africa, the AIDS epidemic is a multi-faceted phenomenon. The factors that fuel inequalities in Africa are as diverse as African communities themselves. Education, gender inequality, and income per capita have, however, been found to be the core fault lines of inequality upon which gaps in HIV response are premised in Africa. These three, along with other emerging public health priorities such as disease outbreaks and the COVID-19 pandemic, call for diverse approaches to “Equalize” at each level of response– from the local up to the international–in a way that fosters a supportive, enabling environment to respond to HIV/AIDS.
In this context, the AU Commission will commemorate World AIDS Day in Addis Ababa. The AU Commission will also take the opportunity for continued advocacy for the AU Agenda for Nutrition to ensure that gains made over the years in eliminating malnutrition and all its forms in Africa are upheld. AIDS Watch Africa (AWA), whose Secretariat is housed at the AU Commission, continues to play an influential advocacy role in actively shaping discourse on HIV, TB, malaria and health financing and will thus lead the World AIDS Day initiative.
Ministry of Health of Ethiopia, Africa CDC, the Organization of African First
Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) and UNAIDS
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Share the key messages and graphics in this social media toolkit to join us in voicing matters on AIDS response that must be addressed in Africa.
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Call To Action!
Below are key messages and graphics you can share across your social media networks to join the #WorldAIDSDay2022 conversation.
African Medicines Agency
The AU Campaign on Accelerated Reduction on Maternal Mortality