“We have a lot to learn from the AIDS response”, he said.
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UNAIDS estimates that 17.1 million of the 36.9 million people living with HIV worldwide do not know they have the virus.
The Calcutta Samaritans organized an awareness campaign and a rally with an objective to generate awareness amongst the general population and the target group on the issues of HIV and AIDS, modes of transmission and its correlation with drugs in keeping with the theme for World AIDS Day 2015 is “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination, Zero AIDS related deaths”.
“I think for me, living with HIV isn’t harmful, it’s the stigma that’s the most harmful for people living with HIV”, said Kerrigan Johnson, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2005.
He believes knowing one’s own HIV status is a good place to start.
“It has been noted that the number of new cases of HIV has slowly increased over the years due to an increased awareness for testing”.
“It’s important to still keep this disease in mind, because it is very real and still out there some people it’s not”, said service organizer, Virgel Rodriguez.
“This is on the spot and within a minute you can have your blood test results”, she said.
“Here in Cayman, the heterosexual community is actually heading the highest numbers when it comes to HIV and AIDS”.
What: Free, rapid HIV testing, a panel on the history of stigma and HIV, and a luminary lighting are planned to mark World AIDS Day at Georgia Regents University.
Tuesday is the 28th World AIDS Day and the city of Denver, through the Fast Track Cities Initiative, aims to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Quoting statistics, the Minister said that in Punjab, merely 37,000 people suffer from AIDS as against the huge number of 20.80 lakh people in India.
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Free tests are available from 4-7 p.m.
