World
AIDS Day 2014: Nick Clegg’s Message
Today, I’m wearing my red ribbon
with pride for World AIDS Day. In the last thirty years, since the first cases
of HIV were discovered, we’ve travelled a huge distance in terms of research
and treatment. Not least because advances in medication now mean that, if
diagnosed and treated early enough, people living with HIV can live just as
long as people without it.
In the UK we’re committed to
tackling the global impacts of this disease – the ambition has to be a future
with zero new infections and AIDs-related deaths. That’s why last year we
invested £1 billion in the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. This
money is helping hundreds of thousands of people around the world get
lifesaving treatment.
But, of course, there is still a
long way to go. And while the science has moved on, too many people’s attitudes
have not. One in three people living with HIV say that they have experienced
discrimination, because of their condition. That’s simply unacceptable. So,
this World Aids Day, please visit HIVaware.org.uk to get the facts about HIV
and tell the people you know.
It’s critical that people have
the right information, and that the next generation – through good sex
education – understand the facts. Together, by wearing your red ribbon and
tweeting your support using the hashtag Put A Ribbon On It, we can help break
down the stigma that still surrounds this condition and show that there’s just
no place for this kind of discrimination in modern Britain. So please get
involved.
Today, let’s all do our bit. |
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