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World AIDS Day Marked Locally with Rememberance, Education
Posted On Dec 03 2016
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“We want to treat HIV like it’s any other chronic illness”, said Watson,”So that people can live a long, healthy, and productive life”.
People living with HIV/AIDS, their families and advocates are at a World Aids Day observance at the Jackson Medical Mall. In the decades since, we have celebrated unbelievable victories against HIV/AIDS.
“One of the realities of the HIV virus is that it is a virus that discriminates”.
HIV self-testing initiative is a way to reach more people that are not diagnosed of HIV.
And yet, it is syringe access – needle exchange – that we have been the slowest to win.
But unfortunately, despite scientific advances made in HIV treatment, many people are diagnosed with the deadly disease and majority do not know the facts about how to protect themselves and others, and stigma and discrimination remain a reality for them. Why are they self-medicating and using drugs? It has stayed too long in the shadows of the larger HIV/AIDS advocacy movement.
“Would you believe I’m HIV positive”, Freeman asked. An organization that provides health care for low-income residents in Boone and Winnebago Counties marked the day by launching a campaign to overcome the stigma that prevents some people with HIV from getting the care they need. It comes with some very niceinfographics.
NY hopes to have zero AIDS mortality and zero HIV transmission through injection drug use by 2020. Miller added she has noticed a positive change in the community’s support but there’s still work to be done.
“In the 1980s we didn’t know what AIDS was and it was really bad”, explained Graduate Assistant at the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity Chloe Secor.
According to Grey, there are about a thousand new infections daily in South Africa and that is predominantly in young women and men.
Kenyatta said that more caution should be taken as gains made in fighting the scourge may be watered down if the prevalence rates continue to indicate that youths are most susceptible.
