President Obama
issued his final World
AIDS Day message this morning. The two and a half minute video
highlights his administration’s accomplishments fighting HIV and notes the work
still undone.
“Together, we
can do this,” Obama says in the video. “And long after I leave this office,
you’ll have a partner in me.”
Via press
release from the White
House:
December 1
marks World AIDS Day across the globe, and serves as a way to recommit
ourselves to ending HIV/AIDS as
a public health threat. Throughout his Administration, President Obama
propelled America’s leadership on HIV/AIDS by both developing the first
comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States and expanding
our investments in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This World AIDS Day,
we mark the successes we’ve made together, both domestically and globally, by
demonstrating leadership, enhancing our commitment, and achieving measurable
impact. We also recognize the challenges in reaching affected communities, and
continued work needed to achieve our 2020 national goals and end AIDS worldwide
by 2030.
The majority of
people living with HIV reside in low- to middle-income countries. The United
States is leading the world’s response to this crisis, working in partnership
with countries and communities to end the AIDS pandemic by 2030. Including the
President’s FY 2017 Budget request to Congress, the President’s Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is investing over $70 billion from FY 2004 through FY
2017 to accelerate our impact and work to control the epidemic to accelerate
our impact and work to control the epidemic with comprehensive and data driven
efforts. PEPFAR’s success is measured in saving lives and changing the course
of the pandemic. Building on the work of the previous Administration, we have
exceeded our 2016 target for treatment and are now supporting nearly 11.5
million men, women and children across the globe with life-saving anti-retroviral
treatment.
Watch the video
below.
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