Yesterday was World Aids Day, “an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died”.
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“Moving forward, President Barack Obama and the Administration will continue to build on scientific and technological advances to expand access to prevention options and care”.
“The sense of urgency that was the norm during the disease’s most-destructive years must not be allowed to abate”, Mpanju-Shumbusho said.
Today, better treatment means more people are living with the disease, like Milano, who was diganosed 34 years ago.
According to UNAIDS statistics, 41.1 million people were living with HIV globally by the end of December 2014.
“We’re also in the category of being a more rural region”, said Karl Goodkin, chairman of the psychiatry department at the East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine.
This is one of the reasons why I am presenting the keynote address, “HIV/AIDS: A Civil Rights Issue”, to members of the Student National Medical Association and LGBTQ Medical Association attending the World AIDS Day Dinner at the University at Buffalo.
Town of Chenango, NY (WBNG Binghamton) “I was diagnosed in 1994 in November, but we figure I was probably infected in the early 80’s”, said Becky Smith, a long-time AIDS activist. “A total of 2,247 people in the country are HIV-infected”, she said.
“We’ll invest 23 million a year to allow almost 200,000 New York City residents to receive the prevention and health care services they need each and every year”, de Blasio said. Especially for us as young people, letting people see the young faces out here knowing that we’re in support and that you shouldn’t be nervous or afraid to get tested. “It was the stigma that had drove him into a frightful spiral of despair, because all of his friends had looked down on people with HIV and now he knew if he told them he had HIV, they would all be looking down on him”.
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The minister said that while this may seem to be a lofty ambition, the 90/90/90 by 2020 Target is imperative for ensuring that the AIDS epidemic ends by the year 2030.
