Picture Gallery: World AIDS Day

Bucharest, -, ROMANIA : Romanian volunteers hold hands to form a red ribbon during a flash-mob downtown Bucharest on November 29, 2011 to mark the upcomming World AIDS Day on December 1. In Romania live today over 10 000 people living with HIV, and of these, 7,000 are young people who were infected in the period 1988-1990, victims of the Communist-era health care system acording to Romanian National Union of HIV Infested Persons (UNOPA). AFP PHOTO/ DANIEL MIHAILESCU

SILIGURI, WEST BENGAL, INDIA : Members of the West Bengal Voluntary Health Association (WBVHA) carry a cutout of a red ribbon with condom caricatures during an AIDS awareness rally in Siliguri on November 30, 2011, on the eve of World AIDS Day. The theme of this year day, observed annually on December 1, is "Getting to Zero". AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTA

FUYANG, -, CHINA : A doctor attends to a group of AIDS patients receiving free treatment at the Ying Zhouqu Huangzhuang AIDS treatment center in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province on November 28, 2011. Three Chinese men who say they were illegally denied government teaching jobs because they are HIV-positive have taken their cases to the country's top leaders, when physical exams revealed that they each carried the virus that can lead to AIDS. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

Taipei, -, TAIWAN : Dozens of volunteers join a human chain in the form of a red ribbon, a symbol of "love and care" for HIV and AIDS carriers worldwide, at a gathering in downtown Taipei on November 30, 2011, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. The theme of the 2011 global campaign to fight AIDS is "Getting to Zero". AFP PHOTO / PATRICK LIN

FUYANG, -, CHINA : A doctor attends to a group of AIDS patients receiving free treatment at the Ying Zhouqu Huangzhuang AIDS treatment center in Fuyang, east China's Anhui province on November 28, 2011. Three Chinese men who say they were illegally denied government teaching jobs because they are HIV-positive have taken their cases to the country's top leaders, when physical exams revealed that they each carried the virus that can lead to AIDS. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO

Washington, District of Columbia, UNITED STATES : (FILES) A large red ribbon hangs on the North Portico of the White House in Washington in this November 30, 2010, file photo on the eve of World AIDS Day. Nearly three quarters of Americans with HIV do not have their infection under control, raising the risk of death from AIDS and transmission to others, said a US study on November 29, 2011. One in five people with human immunodeficiency virus are unaware that they have the disease, added the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB / FILES

Madrid, -, SPAIN : A man lights candels under a giant red ribon, the symbol of "love and care" for HIV and AIDS carriers worldwide, at a gathering at the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid on November 30, 2011, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. HIV infections continued to rise in Europe in 2010, but thanks to treatment the number of cases of full-blown AIDS has dramatically declined in recent years, according to a report published on November 30, 2011. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET

Madrid, -, SPAIN : People light candels under a giant red ribon, the symbol of "love and care" for HIV and AIDS carriers worldwide, at a gathering at the Puerta de Alcala in Madrid on November 30, 2011, ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1. HIV infections continued to rise in Europe in 2010, but thanks to treatment the number of cases of full-blown AIDS has dramatically declined in recent years, according to a report published on November 30, 2011. AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET