World AIDS Day Compilation December 2nd 2013 Metro: World AIDS Day sets a hopeful goal http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2013/12/03/a-faithful-world-aids- day/#sthash.4wW1wKKR.dpuf Philly: Looking ahead to World AIDS Day 2014 and beyond http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/public_health/Looking-ahead-to-World-AIDS-Day-2014-and- beyond-.html#wcZQYq6DzvoYwwSl.99 Wall Street Journal: Gates Foundation to Double Donation to Fight AIDS http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/12/02/gates-foundation-to-double-donation-to-fight-aids/ USA Today: Obama pledges up to $5 billion for global AIDS fund http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/02/obama-world-aids-day-2013/3804569/ AIDS.Gov: Celebrating a Decade of Progress Fighting Global HIV/AIDS http://blog.aids.gov/2013/12/celebrating-a-decade-of-progress-fighting-global- hivaids.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aids%2Fgov+%28 Blog.AIDS.gov%29#sthash.1UnveZss.dpuf SF Gate: Big crowd marks World AIDS Day in Golden Gate Park http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Big-crowd-marks-World-AIDS-Day-in-Golden-Gate-Park- 5026213.php The Herald-Sun: Church marks World AIDS Day with quilt http://www.heraldsun.com/news/showcase/x1219092103/Church-marks-World-AIDS-Day-with-quilt Huffington Post: World AIDS Day, 2023 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alicia-keys/keep-a-child-alive_b_4368210.html HTVN: World AIDS Day Message http://www.hvtn.org/wad-kublin-2013-update.html ABC News: World AIDS Day: Bono Looks Ahead to an AIDS-Free World http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/12/world-aids-day-bono-looks-ahead-to-an-aids-free- world-2/ The Grio: Living with HIV — a life worth living http://thegrio.com/2013/12/01/world-aids-day-living-with-hiv-a-life-worth-living/#s:unnamed CNN: HIV no longer considered death sentence http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/health/hiv-today/?hpt=he_c1 Vancouver Sun: So close to a cure http://www.vancouversun.com/health/AIDS+close+cure/9230534/story.html 1 CNN: Wrong time to reverse course on HIV/AIDS http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/01/health/world-aids-day/ Huffington Post: Striving for the AIDS End Game: Translating Research Promise Into Public Health Success http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anthony-s-fauci-md/world-aids-day_b_4351133.html LA Times: AIDS fatigue: a dangerous diagnosis http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-greene-aids-research- 20131201,0,4207052.story#ixzz2m8VZInyB The Globe and Mail: Can we imagine the end of AIDS? http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/can-we-imagine-the-end-of-aids/article15676966/ The Lancet: Rights and wrongs http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2962536-2/fulltext?rss=yes New Yorker: What Young Gay Men Don’t Know About AIDS http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/11/what-gay-men-have-forgotten-about- aids.html The News Tribune: We Can End AIDS Without a Cure http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/12/01/2920628/we-can-end-aids-without-a-cure.html CNN: Where to put the smart money to end AIDS http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/29/opinion/gates-world-aids-day/index.html NEXT MAGAZINE: THE FUTURE OF HIV http://www.nextmagazine.com/content/future-hiv Take Part: A Reason To Celebrate World AIDS Day, Anti-Retrovirals Are Amazing http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/11/25/world-aids-day The Hill: We can beat HIV http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/191487-we-can-beat-hiv US AID: 10 Years in the Making: Celebrating USAID’s Achievements Under PEPFAR http://blog.usaid.gov/2013/11/celebrating-usaids-achievements-under-pepfar/ Metro: World AIDS Day sets a hopeful goal Maja Lundager Pedersen December 3rd 2013 2 In Times Square on Sunday, the chant of “end AIDS now” echoed as Housing Works, an organization that helps homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, and nearly 1,000 supporters took to the streets to mark World AIDS Day. This year’s commemoration had a faithful message. “Seven years from today we gather again at this very place in a great day of celebration. In a day to say that we were there at the beginning of the end. To say to our loved ones who passed on that we kept the faith, we kept up the fight and AIDS did not win,” said Charles King, president and CEO of Housing Works, about his dreams for the future. The rally demanded political action against the AIDS epidemic in New York through, among other initiatives, comprehensive prevention education and social justice. “We need to get our political leaders all in on ending AIDS. This is completely doable. This is entirely by political will and targeting our resources where we know the epidemic lives to bring it to an end and that’s really about leadership,” said Daniel Tietz, executive director of AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, addressing his comments to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio. More than 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States; 130,000 of them are New Yorkers. The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day was “Shared Responsibility: Strengthening Results for an AIDS- Free Generation,” and in a press release President Barack Obama declared, “If we channel our energy and compassion into science-based results, an AIDS-free generation is within our reach.” Philly: Looking ahead to World AIDS Day 2014 and beyond Janet Golden December 3rd 2013 With Sunday's World AIDS Day, behind us, today is as good a day as any to think about the future and to embrace the World Bank’s “Development Goal 6”: “to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.“ Here in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website Act Against AIDS has fact sheets and testing information available, as well as a reminder that over one million people in the United States are living with HIV. While there is no cure for HIV/AIDS there are drugs available to control the virus, and President Obama on Monday announced the $100 million funding of a new National Institutes of Health initiative to discover next-generation therapies. That’s the good news. The bad news is from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the weekly epidemiological digest published by the CDC. It finds that rates of unprotected sex by men having sex with men have increased between 2005 and 2011. 3 There’s a public health solution for that: harm reduction, a strategy that seeks to reduce the harm from a hard-to-stop behavior, most typically drug use, rather than stopping the behavior itself. reduction. The CDC report makes clear the steps that are needed: “Health-care providers and public health officials should work to ensure that 1) sexually active, HIV-negative MSM (men having sex with men) are tested for HIV at least annually (providers may recommend more frequent testing, for example every 3–6 months); 2) HIV-negative MSM who engage in unprotected sex receive risk-reduction interventions; and 3) HIV-positive MSM receive HIV care, treatment, and prevention services.” In short, get tested, use condoms, and, if infected, get treatment. Condoms. The word used to be something left out of polite discussion. Today it is something we have to talk about. Condoms can and do prevent infection. For more information see the CDC fact sheet on condoms. And better condoms may be coming soon. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting a Global Health Challenge to develop next generation of condoms and they even have a condom blog.with links to promising new products, such as Origami Condoms' female (video embedded below) and male condoms. Until that next generation arrives, you can access free, current generation male and female condoms from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Take Control Philly program. Another aspect of HIV prevention is needle exchange. Prevention Point Philadelphia runs a syringe exchange, as does the Camden Area Health Education Center. They also provide confidential HIV screening and counseling and provide other medical services. Despite scientific findings that needle exchange is a lifesaving, cost-effective means of preventing blood-borne diseases, a federal funding ban remains in place. The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR) along with many others, is working to end that ban and extend services. You can still celebrate World AIDS day in a meaningful way by signing their petition and contacting your representatives in Congress. Wall Street Journal: Gates Foundation to Double Donation to Fight AIDS Thomas M. Burton December 2nd 2013 BETHESDA, Md. — Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said he plans to nearly double his foundation’s contribution to the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, to as much as $500 million. Coupled with matching grants from other donors, Mr. Gates and his foundation’s officials said this could mean a total $1.6 billion contribution to the Global Fund. The new money follows management troubles and a leveling off in funding for the Global Fund amid difficulties in the economies of many nations that contribute to it. Mr. Gates, who also spoke of worldwide health milestones that have been achieved by various groups including the Global Fund and his own foundation, made his remarks in a round-table discussion with news reporters preceding a lecture he gave at the National Institutes of Health.