WAC Organisation

The World AIDS Campaign (WAC) is based in Cape Town, South Africa and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. A Global Steering Committee (GSC) oversees and sets the strategic direction of the WAC. The GSC evolved from a working group established by individuals involved in early consultations and has now become a platform of key leaders covering a wide range of constituency networks.

It all began in 1997.......

Since its inception in 1997, the World AIDS Campaign (WAC) has been managed by UNAIDS and has focused on raising public awareness on specific issues related to HIV and AIDS, such as the importance of fighting stigma and discrimination and the disproportionate impact of AIDS on women and girls. Over the years, feedback from campaigners has suggested that the WAC has helped influence the international agenda around HIV and AIDS but due to its global nature and, to some degree, its close association with UN agencies, the Campaign sometimes fell short of reaching its full potential at a national and local levels. As a result, in 2004 the WAC became an independent NGO, based in the Netherlands. In 2007 the WAC opened its office in Cape Town, South Africa

Our goal is to ensure governments and policy makers meet the targets they have agreed and mobilise the resources required in the response to HIV and AIDS.

Below are the campaigns theme’s in previous years….

2007/2008: Leadership

2006: Accountability

2005: "Stop AIDS. Keep the Promise"

2004: ‘Have you heard me today?' - Women, girls, HIV and AIDS

2002- 2003: Live and Let Live: Stigma & Discrimination

2001: Men Make a Difference: “I care... Do you?”

2000: Men Make a Difference

1999: Listen, Learn, Live! World AIDS Campaign with Children and Young People

1998: Force for Change: World AIDS Campaign with Young People

1997: Children Living in a World with AIDS

1996: One World. One Hope

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