December 1st, 2009

Learn more about World AIDS Day and its goals, and check out this article by Reuters:

“The United States is ready to shift the focus of its global AIDS programs from emergency medical support to building sustainable health systems, U.S. officials said on Monday as they announced that Washington would host the world AIDS conference in 2012.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Obama administration was strengthening its commitment to fighting AIDS and would take a first step early next year by ending a longtime ban on HIV-positive foreign visitors.

“We have to make sure that our programs foster conditions that improve people’s lives and in turn promote stability, prosperity and security,” Clinton told a meeting to announce the decision to bring the 2012 world AIDS conference to Washington, the first time it will be held on U.S. soil since 1990.

“The return of the conference to the United States is the result of years of dedicated advocacy to end a misguided policy based on fear, rather than science,” International AIDS Society President-elect Elly Katabira said in a statement.”

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