World AIDS Day 2015

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.

World AIDS Day is held on December 1 every year and is an opportunity for people throughout the world to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died.

But this year, NAT is encouraging people to think positive and re-think HIV. The increased local funding comes on the heels of Governor Andrew Cuomo committing an additional $200 million to the cause statewide, and both efforts are part of the state’s goal to reduce the number of new HIV infections to 750 by 2020.

Brazil now offers HIV tests through the public health system and provides regular and emergency HIV medication, post-exposure prophylaxis, to those who believe they have been infected.

Addressing the function, Ibobi said plans are afoot to set up HIV/AIDS testing facilities at every Health Centres including that of hill districts of the state where ART Centres would also be made available.

“When I talk about medically accurate sex education, I’m including information about sexually transmitted infections including HIV”, she added.

Today marks World Aids Day and deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa says the country has the biggest HIV treatment programme globally.

A decade ago, less than 1% of pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV received treatment which would have prevented transmission of the virus.

“We had 10 cases of AIDS reported in October 2015 and 31 cases of HIV”, she said. Today HIV and AIDS is disproportionately affecting young black gay and bisexual men, mainly because of the lack of testing and treatment within the community.

“Around 18,000 people in the United Kingdom are now living with HIV and do not yet know it”, says Sarah Radcliffe, senior policy and campaigns manager at National AIDS Trust (NAT).

Those works were lent to the YAM by the Yellowstone AIDS Project, which services 171 clients and their families. World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day and was first observed in 1988.

HIV is spread through sexual contact, sharing needles, blood transfusions or an infected mother.