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  Archbishop Desmond Tutu at a World Aids Day event held at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre in Masiphumelele outside Cape Town. (Nardus Engelbrecht, Sapa)
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  (Nardus Engelbrecht, Sapa)
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  A man is seen playing drums at a World Aids Day event at the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation Youth Centre. (Nardus Engelbrecht, Sapa)
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  A man is seen spraying a red ribbon at a World Aids Day event outside Cape Town. (Nardus Engelbrecht, Sapa)
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  A mural in the shape of a tree is seen with the names of people who have died at the Hillcrest Aids CentreTrust care center, situated in Hillcrest, on the outskirts of Durban. (Schalk van Zuydam, AP)
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  President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe attend a national event to mark the 23rd commemoration of World Aids Day at Wolfson stadium in Port Elizabeth. (Sapa)
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  An unidentified African resident of Pamplona, northern Spain, holds a red symbol of the fight against Aids during events for World Aids. (Alvaro Barrientos, AP)
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  A Buddhist monk takes part in a public gathering to mark World Aids Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Ishara S Kodikara, AFP)
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  An activist, holding a placard marked with a symbolic red ribbon, takes part in a gathering to mark World Aids Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Ishara S Kodikara, AFP)
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  A woman walks near a red ribbon, a symbol for Aids awareness during an Aids awareness campaign in Seoul, South Korea. (Lee Jin-man, AP)
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  A volunteer worker in a costume featuring a condom poses with other volunteers during an AIDS awareness campaign. (Lee Jin-man, AP)
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  Chorus group members walk to the stage of an Aids awareness event held by local community in Shanghai, China. (Eugene Hoshiko, AP)
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  Indonesian students display the word sex during a campaign in Jakarta. (Bay Ismoyo, AFP)
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  A Nepalese child lights candles in front of a painting that depicts the Nepal map with a red ribbon, at an event to mark World Aids Day in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Niranajan Shrestha, AP)
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  Indian school children make a formation in the shape of the red ribbon, the universal symbol of awareness and support for those living with HIV, in Ahmadabad, India. (Ajit Solanki, AP)
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  Nepalese people light candles in the shape of the red ribbon, the universal symbol of awareness and support for those living with HIV, in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Niranajan Shrestha, AP)
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  A man displays condoms marking World Aids Aids day in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. (Visar Kryeziu, AP)
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  US President Barack Obama speaks at George Washington University, in Washington DC, during World Aids Day. (Carolyn Kaster, AP)
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  Wind blows through participants' red ponchos as they walk onto a field before attempting to assemble the world's largest human Aids ribbon in Baltimore, in the US. (Patrick Semansky, AP)
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  People hold their umbrellas aloft as part of the World Aids Day event on Brown's Island in Richmond, Virginia, in the US. (AP)
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  Honduran students hold signs during a march commemorating the World Aids Day in Tegucigalpa. (Orlando Sierra, AFP)
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  (Orlando Sierra, AFP)

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