World Aids Day 2013: War on the epidemic is being won, but discrimination against sufferers is .....

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(Independent UK) The battle against Aids is being won, with deaths down, record numbers of people being treated, and new cases among children down by more than half.

But ongoing discrimination against sufferers is the biggest obstacle to winning the war, according to the head of the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS).

Speaking to The Independent on Sunday on the eve of World Aids Day, UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé said: "We are winning against this epidemic, we are seeing a decline in new infections, an increase in people treated... we have broken the conspiracy of silence."

For the first time, he said, authorities can see "an end to an epidemic that has wrought such staggering devastation around the world". .......................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/world-aids-day-2013-the-war-on-the-epidemic-is-being-won-but-discrimination-against-sufferers-is-still-rife-8975117.html

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1. Bigotry, discrimination and greed, what holds humanity back over and over again. it's

great to see a breakthrough from the quagmire so many often want to hold people in for what ever delusions and distortions they entertain in their warped minds and regressive logic.