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CDC Statement on World AIDS Day
Posted On Dec 02 2015
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According to the CDC, Blacks and Latinos continue to experience the most severe burden of HIV in America, accounting for 44 and 21 percent of new cases of infection respectively.
“While it is true that inspiring and encouraging advances have been made in recent years, the tragic fact is that 1.2 million people worldwide died of AIDS in 2013”.
AIDS has been in the news recently after actor Charlie Sheen announced that he has been living with HIV for the last four years.
For that reason, on World Aids Day, health officials emphasize the importance of testing.
That’s why today-on, Tuesday, December 1, World Aids Day- awareness, learning your status and education is especially important.
For people who are HIV-negative and considered high risk for contracting the virus, taking PrEP include could greatly reduce their risk of infection.
“For me it was a little of both, I believed that I had found the best of husbands but it was the same man who infected me”, she said.
The governor pledged to end the AIDS epidemic in the state by 2020. “It was the stigma that had drove him into a terrible spiral of despair, because all of his friends had looked down on people with HIV and now he knew if he told them he had HIV, they would all be looking down on him”.
Much has changed in the treatment of HIV and AIDS in the three decades since the epidemic began.
“A lot of our people live in isolated or remote communities”. This disease no longer needs to be a death sentence.
Out of those 50,000 people diagnosed with new cases annually, around 20,000 do not find out they have it until it becomes full blown aids. Speaking at the same occasion, the chairman for the Zimbabwe National Network for People living positive with HIV, Mr Sebastian Chinhaire, called for the development of drugs with lesser side effects to ensure treatment adherence. ‘Let us also recognize researchers, providers, and advocates, who work each day on behalf of people living with HIV, and in honor of the precious lives we have lost to HIV.
