From left, actress Elizabeth Taylor and Mathilde Krim, chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, pose at the United Nations in New York on December 2, 1996, before a World AIDS Day luncheon.
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Jan 1, 2001
After years of little to no international coordination, UNAIDS was launched to strengthen the United Nations’ response to the global AIDS epidemic. This program was a significant step at a time when there was little international coordination on the issue. Although the United Nations had been responding to AIDS already, UNAIDS was a consolidation of that response.
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January 1, 1996