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Happy World AIDS Day everyone! We're still here!!!
Love to all,
Margarite
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bottom right] [image: frame bottom] World AIDS Day 2015

Remarkable progress has been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since the
first annual World AIDS Day was commemorated 26 years ago.

Today ICW reminds GLOBAL POLICY MAKERS that there is no ending AIDS by 2030
without the involvement of women.

On this World AIDS Day (WAD 2015) ICW commemorates our sisters in the
struggle who we have lost to AIDS. In their memory we work to raise
awareness about the status of the pandemic, and to encourage progress in
HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support. The theme of this
year’s World AIDS Day, ‘Getting to Zero – Zero New HIV Infections, Zero
Discrimination and Zero AIDS Related Deaths,’ underscores the urgent need
to ensure access to treatment for all, end stigma and discrimination and
ensure sufficient, and sustained domestic financial resources for HIV.

Millennium Development Goals (MDG 6):- Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases has been met and exceeded. The global response to HIV has averted
30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million (7.8 million)
AIDS-related deaths since the MDGs were implemented.

Despite these advances, HIV still remains the leading cause of death among
women of reproductive age, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where UNAIDS
has reported an increase in new infections, particularly among adolescent
girls and young women aged 10–24 years. Women continue to face
intersectional burdens of HIV and gender inequality, and experience high
levels of violence, stigma, harmful attitudes, discrimination and
violations of their human rights including their sexual and reproductive
health and rights. Women in key populations face a disproportionately high
burden of HIV, particularly sex workers, women who use drugs, transgender
women, and women from Indigenous communities. Denial of the fundamental
human rights of women, persistent inequality and persecution of key
populations are driving the epidemic in places such as Eastern Europe and
Central Asia.

Global leadership have set a visionary goal to end the AIDS epidemic by
2030. It is clear that unless the structural inequities that impact women
and girls and unless women are at the center of efforts to get to zero
these ambitious targets will remain a vision rather than a reality.

On this World AIDS Day, we remember our sisters in the struggle and issue a
call to action to:

   - Invest in the use of research and gender disaggregated data for
   decision-making;
   - Ensure that women living with HIV can realize their full human, sexual
   reproductive health and rights, and live free from stigma and
   discrimination;
   - Governments to repeal, and civil society to push back against,
   punitive laws that continue to discriminate against and promote violence
   towards key populations of women living with HIV;
   - We ask all our Governments and donors to invest in networks of women
   living with HIV and civil society to educate, advocate, reduce stigma, and
   reduce HIV transmission.

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