Erie County recognizes World AIDS Day

There were 319 new cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections reported among Singapore residents in the first 10 months of the year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Thursday (Dec 1). Each year on this day people show their support for those living with HIV and they remember those who have died. “While we have so much to celebrate and have made great strides on the research front, we still need to be vigilant against discrimination and harmful stigmas that ostracize people with HIV and AIDS”.

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The hashtag, Word Aids day was top trends across the globe the entire day. “These new tools, combined with testing and treatment, have the potential to dramatically reduce the number of new infections”. Over half of the cases in Sub Saharan Africa are in Eastern and Southern Africa. Worse yet, in some countries, the rate of HIV infection has actually begun to increase again.

A new statewide initiative called “Getting to Zero Massachusetts” is setting three goals for 2030: 0 new HIV infections, 0 AIDS related death and 0 stigma related to HIV/AIDS.

Only 22 percent of Utah’s adult population have been tested for HIV, according to the Utah Department of Health.

“Taking AIDS out of isolation remains an imperative if the world is to reach the 2020 target”, he said. Worldwide, slightly less than half of the people living with HIV have access to these life-saving medicines. By the end of 2015, 17 million people were on ART globally, an increase of over 800% in a decade.

In 2015 there are over 100,000 people in the United Kingdom living with HIV and only 88,769 know they have the condition, which increases the risk of onward transmission greatly.

Sidibé expressed the hope that the target by the United Nations to end the AIDS scourge by 2030 was on course.

So we know that the challenge is huge, and we know that we can not hope to make progress without the help of healthcare workers such as pharmacists and their colleagues. Thus people with HIV, and those at higher risk, can enjoy healthy, extended and productive lives.