The United Nations marked the fight against HIV and AIDS epidemic 30 years

Commemorate the 30 HIV and AIDS pandemic, the State Minister of State and Government Summit and the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, scoring podium place in their country on the list of achievements and challenges listed in the fighting.

The General Assembly High-Level Conference on AIDS, 10 years after the United Nations on HIV / AIDS on the special session also marked the political declaration since, the United Nations is committed to achieving universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, signed by five members of the Movement, care and support.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled three years ago, the United Nations, the spread of AIDS, and a decade, "Today, we have the opportunity to end this epidemic once and for all."

Now, not fear, there is hope, he said.

"Today, HIV in some of the worst affected countries declined sharply. Such as Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe," he said. "They are the world's largest popular, they have reduced the infection rate by a quarter."

"Globally, more than 600 million people now receive treatment," Ban said. "These developments are to thank you, you make the commitment, first in 10 years ago, and then in 2006. Again today, the challenge has changed. Today, we gather in the eradication of AIDS."

However, the President of the General Assembly said that 10 billion people still without access to treatment and too many people are still infected, add the necessary complement and continue to be closely linked to the prevention, treatment, care and support measures.

"Our time has reached a critical juncture," he said. "We must take an integrated approach, and incorporated into broader development plans of the AIDS response."

Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), recalled the 30-year disease known as the gay plague and slime disease. People are afraid of each other, there is no hope.

"This image should not be lost. This is part of our history," he said.

Sidibe said that AIDS is a movement to break the conspiracy of silence, for equality and dignity in the face societies'wrongs, to seize their rights, and social justice made a strong appeal to people's stories. Since then, the global compact has been made between the North and South, which produced a life-saving results.

Now, more than 660 million people in low and middle income countries, the treatment, he said, noting that, as in Uganda and Thailand to 56 countries, including 36 in Africa, the initial success story has been able to stabilize the epidemic and reduce the number of infections significant.

Infection has more than 35 percent in South Africa, and reduced by half in India, UNAIDS official said. In China, AIDS mortality has declined 64 percent, Sidibe said. Many other countries have achieved universal access to treatment.

What he said was repeated several times, this is a "a reform agenda" call "zero infections, zero and zero discrimination against AIDS-related death."

In order to face the disease one, one from Ukraine openly with HIV, Tetyana Afansiadi, life, woman tells her story of the representatives.

She told they are infected with HIV, and use the drug for 13 years, nearly 11 years, hepatitis C, but now there is a husband and an 8-year-old son. There is no HIV.

Three years ago, she participated in a drug treatment program, to make her live, work and health care as part of his son.

"Drug dependence and HIV infection requires treatment, not to prosecute," she said.

As in her hometown of opioid replacement therapy, such as changing the lives of her people, now is the time refused to stop anti-retroviral treatment for people who use drugs.

Although the state and government ministers, usually those who head the title of the health sector, in the Assembly Hall to the bright lights, scores of five group meetings attended by representatives of more than 40 individual side events.

Dark green from the high-profile some of the podium in the Great Hall of the sample survey:

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said: "It is time for Member States to commit to a stimulating agenda for change, overcome obstacles, effective, equitable and sustainable response to HIV and AIDS."

Jose Angel 科尔多瓦亚洛 Worth, Minister of Health of Mexico, the National Executive friendly, non-discriminatory health care system, and sex education to prevent HIV / AIDS calls.

"To achieve this goal, we call on all countries gathered here today, for your action is based on respect for human rights framework and focused on gender equality, to allow consolidation of an effective response without the stigma of HIV / AIDS, discrimination, homosexuality, transphobia; and any type of violence, "he said, referring to the part to degeneration.

Vice President of Mauritius and Monique Bellepeau, said: "The adverse effects of the AIDS epidemic in the socio-economic progress, especially in developing countries, decided there is no time for complacency."

She added, "After wrestling with AIDS in the past three decades, we are a vast body of knowledge, with a variety of new tools to complete the task today of emergency. More stringent prevention and universal access to treatment, care and support is required should not be underestimated. "

Thursday's speech to a three-day meeting on the last day of United Nations Member States are expected to adopt a declaration to guide the national response to HIV the next five years.

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