The MAC AIDS Fund has given a $2 million grant to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to expand its Treatment 2015 Initiative, according to a statement from UNAIDS. The initiative seeks to provide 15 million adults and young people with HIV treatment by 2015. The grant will help expand its HIV testing and treatment efforts for youth around the world. Nearly 2 million adolescents and young people living with HIV globally are eligible for treatment. New Viva Glam spokesperson Rihanna announced the grant at an event to launch her new lipstick and lip gloss, which support the MAC AIDS Fund.

To read the statement, click here.

The MAC Cosmetics launch of Viva Glam Rihanna at the
MAC Store Soho on January 29, 2014, in New York City.

From left: Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director; pop singer Rihanna; John Demsey, chairman of the MAC AIDS Fund and group president of The Estee Lauder Companies; and Nancy Mahon, global executive director of the MAC AIDS Fund.

Photo credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for MAC Cosmetics