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Observing World AIDS Day Today, December 1, we commemorate World AIDS Day. This has been a year of reflection as we marked the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS on June 5, 1981. AIDS is still here, and it affects all of us in the U.S. and around the world. AIDS has been, and continues to be, […]
President Obama announces new efforts to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States President Barack Obama today announced accelerated efforts to increase the availability of treatment to people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States in conjunction with World AIDS Day 2011. The president directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) […]
Statement from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on World AIDS Day This World AIDS Day is particularly poignant because this year we have marked the 30th anniversary of the first reports of AIDS. Today, as we remember those we have lost, we also celebrate the progress we have made and look expectantly to the future. Together, we […]
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Open for Questions: The Beginning of the End of AIDS … … Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development and Democracy at the White House, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, will be taking questions on the global AIDS epidemic and what the Obama Administration is doing to […]
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UNODC helps female injecting drug users to fight HIV 1 December 2011 – World AIDS Day, commemorated today, is one of the most recognized international health days and a key opportunity to raise awareness and recognize victories in access to treatment and prevention services for those infected with HIV and AIDS. The theme for this […]
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Believe it. Do it. … … The public service announcement “Believe it. Do it.”, which was shown at the 2011 UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, helped launch a Global Plan that will make significant strides towards eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. ### > United Nations (UN). […]
On World AIDS Day, UN officials say end to epidemic is within reach Isabel is a grandmother in Mozambique who cares for her 6 months old granddaughter whose mother died of an AIDS-related illness 1 December 2011 – As the world heads into the fourth decade of AIDS, it is finally in a position to end […]
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2011 World AIDS Day campaign. Be an activist! As we mark 30 years of AIDS, let’s be inspired by the early days of AIDS activism. AIDS has proven to be much more than an epidemic—it is a movement that has inspired people across the world. This movement is more important now than ever. The beginning […]
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HIV traps Asian households in vicious circle of joblessness, debt 01 December 2011 School enrollment, nutrition also suffer, new study says Bangkok —Households in Asia that include people living with HIV exhaust their savings and liquidate assets at a disproportionately high rate, often plunging into “irreversible poverty,” according to a new UN Development Programme (UNDP) study, released today. Catastrophic health […]
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On the occasion of World AIDS Day STATEMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY United Nations, New York, 1 December 2011 We commemorate World AIDS Day this year with hope and optimism. Thirty years since the first case of AIDS was reported, HIV has infected 64 million people from all […]
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