Health Quotes: UNAIDS Director on HIV Breakthrough By meganfriedman July 20, 2010 Share Read Later Send to Kindle REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez “We are giving hope to women.” — Michel SidibĂ©, Executive Director of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), on a study that found that a vaginal gel is capable of preventing women from contracting HIV from an infected partner