Sir Elton John performs on stage at Longleat to celebrate the Safari park’s 50th anniversary on June 12, 2016 in Wiltshire, England.
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We can not lose a sense of urgency, because despite all the progress we have made, HIV remains among the most pressing and urgent of global challenges – 1.1million people died of AIDS and 2.1million were infected previous year alone.
“TB is preventable, treatable, and curable, yet we have allowed it to become the world’s leading infectious killer, and the leading killer of people with HIV”, said Joanne Carter, Executive Director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, which is dedicated to the fight against TB. For instance, the country has one of the world’s highest HIV testing rates with about 72 per cent of citizens having been tested at least once.
Barton discusses a press conference on Tuesday on the first funding decline among major donor governments for the global HIV response in five years (7/20). “The country should focus more on stronger preventive efforts and universal access of ART treatment, and curbing the transmission among injecting drug users”, Soewarta Kosen, a policy researcher at Indonesia’s National Institute of Health Research and Development, who worked on the study, said in the statement.
It is time for a new generation of leaders to step forward. This year’s theme, “Access Equity Rights Now” serves as a call for action and cooperation in reaching people who lack access to the life-saving treatment, prevention, and support services they deserve.
Although scientists ultimately hope to license an HIV vaccine, they acknowledge that it will take much longer than the latest trial to make that happen. “It needs to stop here and now”.
The session will address the HIV epidemic among adolescents with an emphasis on the impact stigma and discrimination have on young people.
Kenya has had the fastest-growing number of new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade, a new report shows.
The two princes watched as their organisation’s staff and youth volunteers explained how residential camps, monthly Saturday clubs and caregiver days help educate families and communities on supporting young people in their care with HIV.
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Global artist Elton John and Microsoft founder Bill Gates joined thousands of delegates at the conference in Durban.
