HIV-Positive Priest Calls for Total Commitment to AIDS Fight
International commitments to fight HIV and AIDS have gained momentum, but as the Rev. Canon Gideon Byamugisha pointed out, there have been ''missed opportunities.''
UNITED NATIONS - The world meets the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS today. To date, more than 65 million people worldwide have been infected by HIV, according to UNAIDS, 25 million of whom have died.
When the Centers for Disease Control published a report 25 years ago on five homosexual men in Los Angeles, little was known about the cause and transmission, but knowledge about the disease was quickly changing. In just a few months, the world became aware of the contagion that could infect non-homosexuals when similar cases were reported in injecting drug users and in the United Kingdom.
Today, international commitments to fight HIV and AIDS have gained momentum and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
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