Cuomo Honors World AIDS Day by adding $200M to Fight The Epidemic

If this is accomplished, the World Health Organization believes that the AIDS epidemic can be eliminated within this generation.

“I urge residents of the state to know that HIV /AIDS is real, there is no cure for it, and everyone should protect themselves”. For that reason, on World Aids Day, health officials emphasize the importance of testing.

And they didn’t have to worry about privacy because of the new booths being used this year.

“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.

Levine said the state’s Medicaid expansion, which became available at the start of this year, assures medical coverage to people with HIV, which is the virus which causes AIDS, or AIDS.

People are positive and hopeful that one day the virus will be eradicated with the research and development being made on new treatments.

“The Health Ministry will continue to work closely with its partners in creating a much needed awareness on HIV/AIDS”, Minister Usamate said.

There are prominent figures today who live with HIV today and appear to have it under control, like former basketball great Magic Johnson.

As of 2013, 117,618 New Yorkers are living with HIV/AIDS, and 2,718 new cases were diagnosed in 2014-quite a drop from the 5,684 diagnoses in 2001.

Dr. Mark Anderson says “To see a group of people who were dying suffering with bad infections, now treatment pulled them back from the brink of the grave”.

One of the biggest ways everyday people can help is to get tested, themselves, experts say.

He then stressed the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to HIV/AIDS through active participation of all stakeholders including Civil Society Organisations, Private sector, Faith-based organisations, communities and people living with HIV and AIDS. City Councilman Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan), who is HIV positive, at the event said the city’s new funding aligns with Cuomo’s blueprint to fight the virus. Sen.