Presidential Document2021-26458
World AIDS Day, 2021
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December 3, 2021
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November 30, 2021
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 230 (Friday, December 3, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-26458]
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Proclamation 10317 of November 30, 2021
World AIDS Day, 2021
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
For decades, World AIDS Day has been recognized as an
opportunity for people around the world to stand
together in the fight against HIV. This year on World
AIDS Day, we are focused on addressing health
inequities and inequalities and ensuring that the
voices of people with HIV are at the center of our work
to end the HIV epidemic globally.
While we have made remarkable progress in the 40 years
since the first-known reported case of AIDS, this
disease remains a serious public health challenge--and
we join the international community to honor and
remember the more than 36 million people, including
700,000 Americans, who have tragically died from AIDS-
related illness since the start of the epidemic. We
also renew our commitment to stand with the nearly 38
million people living with HIV around the world as we
pursue our shared goal of ending the HIV epidemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the challenges our
heroic health care and frontline workers face, yet they
continue to deliver essential HIV prevention services
and provide vital care and treatment to people living
with HIV. The pandemic has also interrupted HIV
research and highlighted the work that still remains to
achieve equitable access to HIV prevention, care, and
treatment in every community--particularly for
communities of color, adolescent girls and young women,
and the LGBTQI+ community.
My Administration remains steadfast in our efforts to
end the HIV epidemic, confront systems and policies
that perpetuate entrenched health inequities, and build
a healthier world for all people. Earlier this year, I
reinstated the White House Office of National AIDS
Policy to coordinate our efforts to reduce the number
of HIV infections across our Nation. This week, my
Administration is releasing an updated National HIV/
AIDS Strategy to decrease health inequities in new
diagnoses and improve access to comprehensive,
evidence-based HIV-prevention tools. This updated
strategy will make equity a cornerstone of our response
and bring a whole-of-government approach to fighting
HIV.
My budget request includes $670 million to support the
Department of Health and Human Services' Ending the HIV
Epidemic in the U.S. Initiative--to reduce HIV
diagnoses and AIDS-related deaths. My Administration
has also strengthened the Presidential Advisory Council
on HIV/AIDS by adding members from diverse backgrounds
who bring the knowledge and expertise needed to further
our Nation's HIV response.
My Administration is committed to helping the world end
the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat by 2030.
Through the United States President's Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), we have saved more than 21
million lives, prevented millions of HIV infections,
and supported at least 20 countries around the world to
reach epidemic control of HIV or achieve their
ambitious HIV treatment targets. This remarkable
progress over the past 18 years has been made possible
through strong, bipartisan United States leadership and
American generosity. Now, together with partner
governments and communities, my Administration is
setting a bold vision for achieving sustained epidemic
control of HIV by supporting equitable health
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services and solutions, contributing to improved health
for all in PEPFAR-supported countries, and working with
the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria; UNAIDS; and other regional and local partners
toward the goal of ending the HIV epidemic everywhere.
Ending the HIV epidemic is within our reach, and we are
committed to finishing this work. On World AIDS Day, we
rededicate ourselves to building on the progress of the
last 4 decades; upholding and advancing human rights;
supporting research, science, and data-driven
solutions; expanding access to housing, education, and
economic empowerment; and fighting stigma and
discrimination. No one living with HIV should suffer
the undeserved guilt and prejudice that too many
continue to experience. We must innovate and explore
new ways to help address HIV/AIDS in communities here
at home and around the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 1,
2021, as World AIDS Day. I urge the Governors of the
United States and its Territories, and the American
people to join the HIV community in activities to
remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS and to
provide support, dignity, and compassion to those
living with HIV.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
sixth.
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