Every day this week, we’ll be highlighting a personal story from our new AIDS report, “Progress. Proof. Promise.” In this essay, former President George W. Bush discusses the impact that PEPFAR has had on the fight against AIDS.
In 2001, an AIDS pandemic threatened to destroy a generation of Africans. In country after country, people were needlessly dying even though new life-saving antiretroviral drugs were available at a reasonable cost. The humanitarian disaster called for dramatic action.
For World AIDS Day, the White House is hosting a live question-and-answer session with Gayle Smith, special assistant to the President, and Ambassador Eric Goosby, the US global AIDS coordinator and senior director for development and democracy at the White House today at 2:30 p.m. It’s the perfect event to attend if you have lingering questions on HIV/AIDS after our World AIDS Day event on YouTube.
Submit your questions on their Facebook page, Twitter using the hashtag #WHChat, or on their webform. You can watch it in the player below (the screen will go live near the event time) or on the White House’s live page.
Today at 10 a.m. ET, ONE and (RED) are hosting an incredible World AIDS Day to highlight the progress that has been made in the last 10 years in the fight against global AIDS. President Obama, ONE cofounder Bono, former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Alicia Keys and others will be in attendance. The event will be moderated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. They’ll also be taking questions from ONE members, so be sure to stay tuned for the Q&A session at the end.
Watch the event in the player below, or go to our YouTube channel to watch it. We’ll be live-tweeting the event on our Twitter account, @ONECampaign, using the hashtag #endofAIDS.
With World AIDS Day just around the corner, a new movement has formed to drive momentum toward the goal of ending the AIDS crisis by 2020: ACT V (Five), led by Leigh Blake and Paul Zeitz. It’s called Act V because, as they see it, the AIDS movement has been defined by four key acts over the last three decades, and today we stand on the cusp of a 5th and final act:
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV/AIDS. But this World AIDS Day –- December 1st — we’re commemorating it as a call to action to help bring about the beginning of the end of AIDS… and it starts with you.
We’re proud to announce the launch of the (2015)QUILT, a groundbreaking digital tool that brings people from all over the world together to fight for a historic achievement –- the delivery of the first AIDS-free generation in more than 30 years. Watch our latest video and get started now:
Guest blogger Natalie Zutter from Crushable, an entertainment blog, offers an interesting perspective to our World AIDS Day coverage this week.
Thursday, December 1 marks World AIDS Day, an opportunity for people all over the planet to get educated on the facts about HIV/AIDS, what it’s like to live with the disease today, and how to prevent it. All week at Crushable, we’ll be talking about what HIV/AIDS means to you, our readers, in terms of pop culture.
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In the spirit of dispelling myths and sharing knowledge, we’ve gathered up 12 different portrayals of TV and movie characters who have the disease. Some have died, others are living with it, but all taught us something about it. In chronological order, here are the high points (and a few low ones) of how HIV/AIDS has been depicted in film, television, and even reality TV from 1986 to 2011.
Every day this week, we’ll be highlighting a personal story from our new AIDS report, “Progress. Proof. Promise.” Professor Luc Montagnier, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 2008 for his work on AIDS, talks about some of the ways that we can reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
Early in 2009, UNAIDS called for the “virtual elimination” of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. And today, we have real hope that this is possible. Thanks to a range of affordable and easy interventions, in recent years, elimination of mother-to-child transmission has become not just an aspiration, but a plausible goal.
It is true that the containment of the HIV epidemic, and especially of mother-to-child transmission, still depends on the socioeconomic, cultural and political milieu of a country. Mother-to-child transmission has already been virtually eliminated in high-resource settings through the use of several strategies, such as effective voluntary counseling and testing, access to antiretroviral therapy, safe delivery practices, and the widespread availability and safe use of breast-milk substitutes.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
