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STORY: UN / WORLD AIDS REPORT
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 26 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarters
26 NOVEMBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“World AIDS Day is coming on the first of December, which is this Sunday, and as we approach World AIDS Day, we always take a moment to remember the over 42 million lives that have been lost to AIDS, we also take a moment to recommit to our shared goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“Today, we are launching our report take the rights path To end AIDS, which brings a message of hope, unrelenting hope, but also a call of urgent action.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“More than 30 million people living with HIV are alive today and thriving because they are on life saving treatment. AIDS deaths have plummeted by 70 percent since their peak.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“And so we must make sure that we continue to succeed on the path of ending AIDS as a public health threat by addressing the rights that people face.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“Adolescent girls and young women. Key populations children, for example, these are the populations that are hardest to reach and hardest to find.”
12. Wide shot, press briefing room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“Today. 1.3 million people around the world acquire HIV and AIDS. This is three times higher than the 2025 target that the girl that the globe is set to achieve, that's 4000 new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women just in a week.”
14. Wide shot, press briefing room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Angeli Achrekar, Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS):
“In 28 countries, the number of new HIV infections is on the rise, and of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV 9.3 million people are still in need of treatment.”
16. Wide shot, end of press briefing
The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched its 2024 report ‘Take the rights path to end AIDS.’
Speaking at a press briefing in New York today (26 Nov), Angeli Achrekar, UNAIDS Deputy Executive Director noted, “As we approach World AIDS Day, we always take a moment to remember the over 42 million lives that have been lost to AIDS. We also take a moment to recommit to our shared goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.”
The newly launched report highlights both achievements and remaining gaps in addressing the global epidemic. Achrekar noted that “more than 30 million people living with HIV are alive today and thriving because they are on life-saving treatment. AIDS deaths have plummeted by 70 percent since their peak.”
However, significant challenges persist. Achrekar said, “Today, 1.3 million people around the world acquire HIV and AIDS. This is three times higher than the 2025 target that the globe is set to achieve.”
She underscored the disproportionate impact on vulnerable populations, adding, “Adolescent girls and young women” are among the populations that are “hardest to reach and hardest to find.”
Achrekar called for a continued focus on rights-based approaches to tackle the epidemic, “We must make sure that we continue to succeed on the path of ending AIDS as a public health threat by addressing the rights that people face,” she said.
Despite progress, the report reveals concerning trends. “In 28 countries, the number of new HIV infections is on the rise, and of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV, 9.3 million people are still in need of treatment,” Achrekar warned.
World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1, shines a spotlight on the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS, urging the world to renew its commitment to ending the epidemic once and for all.
