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December First is World AIDS Day and we are now in the 25th year of this global epidemic. Today, there are 40 million people throughout the world living with HIV.
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Transcript Provided by YouTube:
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this is Joe Saul moniez president of the
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Human Rights Campaign December first is
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world aids day and we are now in the
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25th year of this global epidemic today
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there are 40 million people throughout
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the world living with HIV this is an
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epidemic caused by a virus yet it is
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fueled by ignorance prejudice and
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homophobia we are in the 25th year yet
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Congress has not reauthorized the Ryan
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White Care Act which delivers critical
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care prevention and comfort we’re in the
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25th year yet too many of us have walked
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away from this battle on World AIDS Day
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I urge you to recommit yourself to HIV
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and AIDS to support your local aids
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organizations to hold your elected
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officials responsible for funding and
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supporting people living with HIV and
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AIDS we need better messaging to reach
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young people to reach african-american
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gay men who are disproportionately
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infected to engage more of us in this
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battle 25 years later we can still win
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but only if all of us stay in this very
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important fight it’s up to all of us to
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make aids a thing of the past let’s come
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together and stop the spread of HIV and
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end prejudice
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