Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS and an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations visited Brighton on the 9th September 2021. She is a passionate and longstanding champion of social justice and gender equality, and leads the United Nations’ efforts to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Ms Byanyima believes that health care is a human right and was an early champion of a People’s Vaccine against the coronavirus that is available and free of charge to everyone, everywhere.

World AIDS Day 1996 – Brighton You can still see a World AIDS Day memorial in Brighthelm Gardens. It’s positioned at the base of a silver birch tree adjacent to the entrance doors on the North Road side. The plaque was unveiled on the 01 December 1996, in the presence of people with and affected by HIV, and representatives from local community groups and charities.