Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, speaking separately at the same event Tuesday at Harlem’s Apollo Theater, said his administration will seek financial and programmatic commitments of $200 million toward housing, life insurance and other programs.
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Now, however, there are medications available (known as antiretroviral therapy or ART) that help treat the HIV infection and prevent it from progressing to AIDS.
“I counseled a gay man, a 32-year-old gay man last month who was diagnosed”, Milano told MetroFocus Host Jack Ford. Plenty of people with HIV live completely normal lives. The global leader in the fight against AIDS said that it is standing beside every person who is being infected with the deadly virus.
According to World Health Organization, globally there are an estimated 34 million people who have the virus.
To find out where you can get tested, Clark said to contact your local health department. People are actually paying attention to the fact that this is not a disease that’s going to kill you within the next six months from your diagnosis.
She quoted UNAids statistics which suggested a 33% decline in the number of new HIV infections, from 3.4 million in 2001 to 2 million in 2014.
Meanwhile, Michel Sidibe, executive director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said ending the AIDS epidemic required that key populations have full access to health services delivered to them with dignity and respect.
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“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. “In New York, over half of people with HIV are now over the age of 50, and so we need to make sure that people know we’re still fighting this illness”.
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“People still living with HIV are still fighting the fight, but eventually we’ll have a world where we don’t need to fight the fight”.
