Below is an interesting article, written before World AIDS Day 2011, which emphasises the need to destigmatise HIV in Northern Ireland and push for greater funding for care and prevention.

HIV/AIDS Thirty Years On: Challenges and Hopes
By Ruari-Santiago McBride
23/11/2011
The AIDS virus was first discovered three decades ago in the United States. Since then, 30 million people have died from AIDS-related causes and 1.8 million people continue to die every year. According to the World Health Organisation there are currently 33.3 million people living across the world with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS. The impact that HIV/AIDS has had on our global community is internationally recognised on the 1st of December as ‘World AIDS Day’.

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