Together, let’s bring the momentum to AIDS 2010
Dear friends, welcome to UNAIDS’ new blog, created for the XVIII Vienna AIDS Conference. I look forward to using this platform as an additional way to share our thoughts – and those of our partners in the AIDS response – over the coming week.
I am excited about this conference. The momentum that has been building ahead of the 18 July opening is not only invigorating, it also demonstrates that interest in HIV and the global response is high – backed by the findings of a new opinion survey UNAIDS commissioned as part of the Outlook 2010 Report, which I launched earlier this week in Geneva.
AIDS 2010 represents a defining moment in the AIDS response – new infections are down, treatment numbers up, investments in HIV are showing results, and the conspiracy of silence has been broken.
Tremendous progress has also been made on several other integral aspects of the epidemic, from increasing prevention efforts, and strengthening health systems, bringing AIDS out of isolation, to mobilizing politicians and community leaders to push for treatment access and putting an end to stigma and discrimination.
But my friends, the epidemic continues to outpace our efforts; our achievements are clearly not enough to break the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. As we move forward, we have to reshape the AIDS response.
Now more than ever, we need to push for a prevention revolution, for treatment that is radically simplified to reach more people in need (what UNAIDS calls ‘Treatment 2.0’), for the removal of laws that block the AIDS response, and for an integrated health agenda where the AIDS response connects to all other aspects of health and development—and vice versa.
This is the new agenda. And we must move ahead.
We are coming to the conference with a new vision for UNAIDS: “Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths.” Nothing less is acceptable.
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