NY will add $200 million to its funding to fight HIV and AIDS and take other steps as the state sees the number of people with the disease declining.
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In his welcoming remarks, Zimbabwean Health Minister David Parirenyatwa said the key messages sent by the conference were that Africa had made progress in combating HIV and AIDS, and the world including Africa could end the epidemic by 2030.
According to latest statistics by United Nations children’s agency, the fatality figures in HIV-affected adolescents is not decreasing, and this is a cause of worry.
That’s the message Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service’s (SCHHS) Director of Sexual Health and HIV Services (Clinic 87), Dr Kuong Taing, is sending to promote this year’s World AIDS Day (December 1).
The Department of Health’s Office of Special Clinical Services offers walk-in HIV and STD testing on the 3rd floor of Town Hall, Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 2 p.m.to 5 p.m.
An estimated 15.8 million people worldwide are now receiving HIV treatment, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said in a report last Tuesday.
For instance, in the Philippines, new HIV infections among teenagers have doubled in four years.
The National AIDS Trust has started a special campaign in 2015, named Think Positive: Rethink HIV, through which people will be encouraged to share their experiences and various facts about this infection on the social media.
The latest report by the organization outlines the tendency of teens to look for casual sex via dating apps, causing a jump in HIV cases among 10-19 year-olds in the Asia-Pacific region.
“World AIDS Day is an important moment to reflect and to commemorate all those who have lost their lives to this disease”, he said, “to reflect on the challenges that face us today, and those that lie ahead”. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day, held for the first time in 1988.
“This report has been a culmination of more than two years of efforts to try to get all available data to help us understand the picture of the epidemic facing them”.
Also notably, Cuba was certified as being free of mother to child transmission earlier in 2015, he said. We have a shared responsibility to initiate programs that protect the rights of people living with HIV to avoid discrimination and ensures their human dignity.
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This year’s message is “Think Positive: Rethink HIV”.
