As a pediatrician who has worked with HIV exposed, affected, and infected children for for about 25 years, I am distressed by the loss of emphasis on prevention of mother to child transmission. We currently have the knowledge and tools to drastically reduce the number of infected children worldwide. ~ Catherine M. Wilfert, M.D.
"; quotes[1] = "Millions of women around the world are confronted with economic deprivation, unequal social status, lack of control in sexual situations, and sexual violence, making them especially vulnerable to HIV. ~ Helene Gayle, MD, MPH, President and CEO, CARE USA
"; quotes[2] = "There's no magic bullet in HIV prevention. Only a combination of strategies can reverse the epidemic's spread. ~ Nick Hellmann, interim director for HIV and TB at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"; quotes[3] = "...last year well over 4 million people contracted HIV, 12,000 a day. There are several reasons for this failure. The main reason is politics, because even where the evidence is clear and scientifically proven – for instance, with providing clean needles or promoting condoms – it is often not acted upon. ~ Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director
"; quotes[4] = "Every day of denial takes a terrible toll. Every new infection adds to the burden on individuals, families, households, communities, and society as a whole. Every day, prevention becomes more urgent. ~ Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General
"; quotes[5] = "We don't simply have a crisis of treatment; we also have a critical crisis of prevention... It's critical that we look at why the ABC message has failed. ~ Zackie Achmat, Treatment Action Campaign
"; quotes[6] = "We need to make the same gains in HIV prevention that we are making in HIV treatment. We have a critical window of opportunity over the next 10 years to dramatically slow the rate of new infections, and ultimately reverse the epidemic. ~ Helene Gayle, M.D., M.P.H., president and CEO of CARE USA
"; quotes[7] = "It’s widely assumed that HIV continues to spread because prevention isn’t effective, and that’s simply not true. The problem is that effective prevention isn’t reaching the people who need it. ~ David Serwadda, MBChB, M.P.H., director of the Institute of Public Health at Makerere University in Uganda
"; quotes[8] = "While adult male circumcision can be an important addition to prevention programs, no single prevention strategy is 100% effective. We need to use all proven prevention strategies in combination. ~ Salim Abdool Karim, MBChB, Ph.D., pro-vice chancellor for research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
"; quotes[9] = "Over the past few years there have been major increases in funding for AIDS, but we are still well short of what is needed. Increasing spending now will save both lives and money over the long term. ~ Nicholas Hellmann, M.D., interim director of the HIV and TB programs at the Gates Foundation.
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