Tuesday was a day set aside to raise awareness about aids.
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According to Columbus Public Health, almost 4,200 Franklin County residents now live with HIV and more than 200 individuals are diagnosed with the disease every year.
“This year, we mark World AIDS Day with new hope”, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message at the UN.
The state death rate from HIV/AIDS was 7.9 per 100,000 in 2004 and 4.2 in 2012, a 47 percent drop, she said.
Tuesday marked World AIDS Day, a day of remembrance that occurs each year on December 1, and offered area health educators the chance to communicate with local people about the persistent dangers presented by the virus.
Fortunately, in more than two decades since World Aids Day began-HIV is no longer a death sentence, but more of a chronic illness that can be treated if it’s caught soon enough.
As of June, 15.8 million people were receiving antiretroviral treatment.
The collaborative effort, announced this morning at the City-County Building, Downtown, aims to slash HIV infection rates countywide and strengthen health care for those already infected.
Obama states that HIV still affects specific populations disproportionately across the US including gay and bisexual men, Black women and men, Latinos and Latinas, people who inject drugs, transgender women, young people, and people in the Southern US.
“Funding will go back to that organisation as well as Queensland Positive People (QPP), the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, the Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council, Hepatitis Queensland and the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine”. He said that ART is also highly effective in preventing sexual, parental and vertical transmission of HIV. “And we will benefit from our new, cutting-edge science supported by our new Center for AIDS Research”. “We all know someone who has died because of AIDS, either because they were not educated on the disease or they just fell prey to peer pressure”.
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“Our deepest appreciation goes out to our members who work as health care providers and as community service workers to help Canadians receive the best treatment and care they deserve”, he concluded.
