On World AIDS Day, PEPFAR Announces Partnership Targeting Infection of Young

The county sees about 130 new HIV infections each year, a figure mostly unchanged over the past six years, according to her department.

State and city money has been pledged to stop the spread of the disease and treat the infected.

In South Africa, 10 percent of the population (6,4-million) have HIV.

Although ARVs do not cure Hiv/Aids, but at least such a drug improves lives of those who suffer from it, and to some the possibility is to live longer on such medication.

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.

On this World AIDS Day, CDC stands with our USA government colleagues and partners around the world in affirming our collective resolve to meet the ambitious but achievable goal of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.

“With a combination of continued condom use, more testing, immediate access to treatment and PrEP we can end HIV transmissions within a decade”.

AIDS Free Pittsburgh joins similar efforts underway in San Francisco, where HIV infection rates have been reduced by 30 percent since 2012, as well as NY state and Washington state.

“HIV-negative men treat HIV-positive gay men just horribly”, Milano said.

“I’ll turn 60 next year and I’ve had HIV for 34 years – that doesn’t mean that I’m not dealing with a whole ton of health issues that it’s not just popping a pill a day”. “In New York, over half of people with HIV are now over the age of 50, and so we need to make sure that people know we’re still fighting this illness”.

YUMA, Ariz- World Aids Day is held on the 1st of December each year and is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.