This year's World AIDS Day theme is "Getting to Zero: Zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths." We now have a clear path to get to zero.
World AIDS Day falls on December 1st, and on that day and most days, I think about AIDS, and what the disease has taken from me. It has taken a lot from me. More than I can think about sometimes, more than I want to remember. More than anything should take from a person.
When I tested positive in the spring of 2005, it felt like the end of the world. HIV was this boogieman that I had been taught to hate and fear since before I really understood how sex worked, and suddenly this monster was inside me.
As we mark this World AIDS Day, the time has come to set aside ideology, reintegrate our global initiatives, and focus on what works. In many parts of the world, the key to making HIV prevention work is to combine it more fully with family planning and reproductive health care.
Just as we have the knowledge to prevent almost every mother from dying needlessly in pregnancy and childbirth, we can prevent 390,000 children being born HIV-positive, most of whom will die by their second birthday.
On this World AIDS Day, we cannot forget there is an HIV crisis raging right here in our own backyards. A dangerous mix of complacency, cultural stigma and outright denial continues to fuel this epidemic in our communities.
Women's empowerment lies at the heart of solving (or failing to solve) most global development challenges -- including the fight against HIV/AIDS.
In January 1991 I attended my father's funeral after he died from complications related to AIDS. Attending the funeral was a different experience for me, as I was just one month shy of my fourth birthday.
Suddenly we jumped from Miss Fire Island 1983 to Miss Fire Island 1998. Um, what? At first, I was like, "Are all those queens from the '80s and '90s really so busy they can't be here?" Then I got it: the missing queens weren't missing. They were gone.
Give the women in your life the confidence and freedom to be their own woman, free from judgment and free to pursue a sexually healthy life.
Statement by Dr. Jane Aronson, founder and CEO of Worldwide Orphans Foundation: On World AIDS Day, observed Dec. 1, we remember the millions of preci...
It is important for me to tell those who are newly diagnosed to understand, having HIV does not mean your life is over. You have a lot to live for, and I am an example of what happens when one doesn't give up.
While donor budgets are constrained, people's generosity is not. This World AIDS Day, I will be in Washington D.C. with Bono to encourage both governments and businesses to keep up the fight against AIDS.
Her World AIDS Day contribution emerged from her own hope, even as she was living suffering similar to that she depicted through paint. If that was not the Holy Spirit at work, I don't know what might be.
On World AIDS Day -- and truly every day -- it's important to remember that our most powerful weapon in the fight against HIV/AIDS is -- and has always been -- our voice. So talk to someone you love or care for today about HIV.
This year marks 30 years after the first discovery of AIDS cases in the United States. While we have come a long way, we have much more work to do. Our country's global leadership will never be more important than at this pivotal moment.
