Lawmakers, activists come together on World AIDS Day

Summary: HYDERABAD: A calendar on HIV/AIDS was released by a leading physician in HIV medicine, Dr Kutikupalla Surya Rao, here on Tuesday on the occasion of World AIDS Day.

“Available statistics are worrisome”.

Despite these achievements, low- and middle-income countries continue to carry the burden of new infections and gaps in access to treatment.

Among the crowd in the stadium were several people infected with the virus.

When Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, he was deep into his second term in the late 1980s before he said the word “AIDS” even though so many lives had been lost to the disease.

“We’ll have a world aids day choir performing, we’ll have quest speakers, we’ll have a candle lighting ceremony were people can light a candle in honor or in memory of somebody”, said Rodriguez.

“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. If untreated, the virus can advance to AIDS.

The Saint Joseph Health Department along with community partners P.E.A.C.E., State Street Bank and Trust of Kansas City and Zion United Church of Christ celebrated World AIDS Day by offering free services to the community.

“There’s still a stigma because of the behaviors associated with getting HIV. We are Kenyans, we are humans”.

The Union government has made a decision to install state-of-the-art CB-Net testing kits in almost 300 HIV and AIDS-endemic districts in the country to detect Tuberculosis among the HIV and AIDS inflicted persons and provide them timely treatment.

Cuomo also announced a milestone in the fight: no reports of infections passed from mother to child in more than a year, the longest period without a case since the epidemic began. Every single day, 5,600 people contract HIV.