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In 1996, @UNAIDS was established to lead a multisectoral response: to tackle marginalization, stigma and discrimination, to address the economic, social and security threats of a rapidly expanding pandemic, and to generate the necessary human and financial resourcespic.twitter.com/lsbzRma6E7
In 2000, the @UN General Assembly adopted the Millennium Development Goals, which committed to ‘halting and reversing the #AIDS epidemic by 2015’ 
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In 2002, the @GlobalFund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was established as a financing mechanism to attract and invest resources to end these three diseases http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/Dx2DFeqAHO
In 2003, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief @PEPFAR was launched, the largest ever bilateral international health initiative. http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/BJbhm48nMO
In 2003, WHO announced the “3 by 5” initiative with the aim of providing #HIV treatment to 3 million people in low- and middle-income countries by 2005 http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/PtfSqAj9Nq
In 1994 a study showed that providing antiretrovirals to pregnant women infected by #HIV and a short course of treatment for the baby once born reduced transmission rates to below 5%, from 15-45% without treatment http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/7SrgKet6O2
In 2015, WHO recommended the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP to prevent #HIV acquisition for people who are at substantial risk of getting HIV. It has contributed to 
rates of new HIV infections among men who have sex with men, in some settings in high-income countriespic.twitter.com/GJPqTlnGxk
HIV is not an easy virus to defeat. Nearly a million people still die every year from the virus because they don’t know they have #HIV and are not on treatment, or they start treatment late http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/SuyEURJ3Uj
One of the biggest challenges in the #HIV response has remained unchanged for 30 years: HIV disproportionally affects people in vulnerable populations that are often highly marginalized and stigmatized http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/Rk9ADZa0rr
Abt 75% of new #HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are in men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons, sex workers, transgender people, the sexual partners of these individuals. They are often discriminated against & excluded from health servicespic.twitter.com/hzGFwQ4HpW
"Stigma remains a fundamental barrier in fighting #HIV. Much of the fear & stigma that surrounded the AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s & 1990’s still exists. Many people still believe that it is a death sentence”-@KarlJSchmid HIV-positive @abc7 news broadcasterhttps://youtu.be/n74mDt1GuiU
HIV continues to disproportionately affect adolescents and young people in many countries. About a third of new #HIV infections are in people aged 15-25 years. In almost all countries where HIV affects many groups, young women aged 15–24 http://bit.ly/2QwO8HW pic.twitter.com/bTfFoMr9OI
"Whilst there are strides being made to put young people on the agenda – it's not enough" - @mercyngulube_ , a 20-year-old #HIV activist from Wales, who was born with the infection, on the need for young people to be at the heart of efforts to end AIDShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijgLjfPvyAM&feature=youtu.be …
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