World Aids Day – in pictures

People take part in a march in Berlin to mourn people with Aids who have died Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

A boy is examined by a nurse at San José hospice in Sacatepequez, Guatemala. HIV-positive patients aged between 44 days and 18 receive free medical care at the hospice. Many of the children were found abandoned in markets, churches or fire stations, left neglected in hospitals or, in some instances, brought in by their families who could not afford to pay for their medical treatment Photograph: Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during an event marking World Aids Day at the National League for Democracy headquarters in Rangoon, Burma Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images

A girl lies on her bed at Hostel Domus Alipio in Mexico City. The hostel is run by the Catholic priest Luis Figueroa and a group of volunteers, and provides shelter, medication and therapy to orphans as well as women and children from low-income families affected by HIV and Aids Photograph: Carlos Jasso /Reuters

Chea Srean, 42, and her daughter Chhorn Thidapov, five, who are HIV positive, attend a ceremony to mark World Aids Day at a pagoda in Kandal, Cambodia Photograph: Samrang Pring/Reuters

A nurse is seen through a door as she talks to a patient in the HIV/Aids ward of a Beijing hospital Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

The names of people who have died from HIV/Aids-related illnesses on a wall at the Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust in Durban, South Africa Photograph: Schalk van Zuydam/AP

A patient takes a dose of generic HIV/Aids drugs at a hospice for the dying at Wat Prabat Nampu Buddhist temple in Thailand Photograph: Sukree Sukplang/Reuters

Transsexuals attend a rally to mark World Aids Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh Photograph: Abir Abdullah/EPA

Workers hang a huge red ribbon on the north portico of the White House in Washington DC Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images