Presidential Document2022-26606
World AIDS Day, 2022
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December 6, 2022
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November 30, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 6, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 74491-74492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-26606]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 233 / Tuesday, December 6, 2022 /
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Proclamation 10502 of November 30, 2022
World AIDS Day, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On World AIDS Day, we recommit to ending the HIV
epidemic in the United States and around the world and
rededicate ourselves to fighting the discrimination
that too often keeps people with HIV from getting the
services they need and living the full lives they
deserve.
It was long hard to imagine, but today, we are within
striking distance of eliminating HIV transmission
worldwide. Thanks to the incredible dedication of
scientists, activists, health care workers, caregivers,
and so many others, we have made enormous progress
preventing, detecting, and treating HIV; reducing case
counts and AIDS-related deaths; and freeing millions of
people to enjoy long, healthy lives. Still, not
everyone has equal access to that care. And for the
more than 38 million people around the world now living
with HIV--especially members of the LGBTQI+ community,
communities of color, women, and girls--a diagnosis is
still life-altering. We can do better.
When I became President, we reestablished the White
House Office of National AIDS Policy and released a
roadmap to accelerate efforts to end the HIV epidemic
in the United States by 2030. Federal agencies have
committed to nearly 400 related actions, working with
stakeholders across the country to make the latest
advances in HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
available to everyone. I have asked the Congress for
$850 million to increase the use of preexposure
prophylaxis (PrEP), expand treatment, and fight the
stigma that stops many people from getting care. We are
working to remove barriers to employment, with our
Armed Forces, for example, ending blanket restrictions
on HIV-positive service members being deployed or
commissioned. And we are calling on States to repeal or
reform so-called HIV criminalization laws, which
wrongly punish people for exposing others to HIV. These
outdated laws have no basis in science, and they serve
to discourage testing and further marginalize HIV-
positive people.
Our important work to end HIV extends far beyond our
borders too, with continued support for the game-
changing, bipartisan President's Emergency Plan for
AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Since 2003, PEPFAR has helped at
least 12 high disease-burdened countries bring HIV
under control and has saved over 25 million lives. Its
efforts to make HIV prevention and treatment services
more accessible have achieved a 65 percent reduction in
new HIV cases in males 15 to 24 years old and a 50
percent reduction in new HIV cases among females the
same age since 2010. And its flagship Determined,
Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe
(DREAMS) public-private partnership has reached
millions of adolescent girls and young women, reducing
new HIV infections in areas where the program operates.
My Administration has also pledged up to $6 billion to
the Seventh Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight
AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria--an initiative that has
saved an estimated 50 million lives to date. I am
asking other international donors to match that
commitment so we can together deliver on the promise of
health and well-being for millions around the world.
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We still have a hard road ahead, especially in
addressing racial and gender gaps in our health
systems, which have long driven inequitable HIV
outcomes at home and abroad. But as we today honor the
700,000 Americans and 40 million lives lost worldwide
to AIDS-related illnesses over the years, we have new
hope in our hearts. We finally have the scientific
understanding, treatments, and tools to build an AIDS-
free future where everyone--no matter who they are,
where they come from, or whom they love--can get the
care and respect they deserve.
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,
2022, as World AIDS Day. I urge the Governors of the
United States and its Commonwealths and Territories,
the appropriate officials of all units of government,
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 people 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-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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