The World AIDS Day 2024 theme is “take the rights path“. The path that ends AIDS is a rights path. Upholding the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, and fostering inclusion of all communities, are essential for ending AIDS, for ensuring sustainable development and for human security.

The World AIDS Day 2024 theme is “take the rights path“. The path that ends AIDS is a rights path. Upholding the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, and fostering inclusion of all communities, are essential for ending AIDS, for ensuring sustainable development and for human security.

There is an urgent need to remove criminal and other laws which harm people’s rights, and an urgent need to enact laws and approaches which uphold the rights of every person. The mandates in the international human rights framework have the force of law, and communities have the right to hold duty-bearers accountable for adherence to the human rights commitments they have made.

To highlight the narrative continuation in UNAIDS messaging, the campaign continues the imagery of a path that leaders need to choose. Here that path is signposted as the rights path.

Adaptable materials for World AIDS Day will be shared on this UNAIDS special World AIDS Day page, beginning in late October. Materials will be tailorable by countries and communities. Download the campaign cover image PDF | JPG

Because change depends not on a moment but on a movement, the message “Take the rights path” will not only ring out on one day. It will be at the core of activities that will build up across November, see the release of the World AIDS Day Report – entitled Take the rights path – on 26^th November, reach a crescendo on World AIDS Day on 1 December, and continue to echo throughout December and beyond.

The upholding of everyone’s human rights is an essential underpinning of an effective HIV response. This World AIDS Day is a call to action to protect everyone’s health by protecting everyone’s rights.  Leaders need to take the rights path.