New Yorkers gather in honor of World Aids Day

Some scarves were even handed out for people to wear, all in recognition of World AIDS Day.

City health officials said the city a year ago had a historic-low 2,718 residents who were newly diagnosed compared with 4,397 new cases in 2004.

Too many South Africans are still being infected with HIV, said Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, commemorating World Aids Day which was held on Tuesday, December 1.

Today, legendary Georgia Congressman John Lewis Lewis (D-Atlanta), who has advocated and fought on behalf of human rights for the past half century, is now imploring citizens to get tested on World AIDS Day.

The City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and area health and services organizations are collaborating on AIDS Free Pittsburgh, a three-pronged public health initiative.

Andrew Cuomo says the state is gaining ground in its push to end the AIDS epidemic by 2020.

While the volunteers received a warm welcome from most people, the executive director of AIDS Moncton, Debbie Warren, says there is still a stigma attached to HIV and AIDS.

The White House statement said the USA has made “significant progress” over the last five years in the fight against the illness, through the country’s first comprehensive National HIV/AIDS strategy, which was released in 2010 and updated in July this year. He said that ART is also highly effective in preventing sexual, parental and vertical transmission of HIV. However, those affected are living longer and Kloeckl said HIV and AIDS has become a forgotten disease.

According to PEPFAR, almost 400,000 adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 are infected with HIV every year. It should be talked about on a daily basis due to the fact that that our HIV stats are the same of new infections per year. “We need to more than double the number of people on life-changing treatment to reach all 37 million of those living with HIV”.

‘We must target our efforts to reduce HIV-related health disparities and focus increased attention on highly vulnerable populations’.