Presidential Document2023-26841
World AIDS Day, 2023
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December 5, 2023
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November 30, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 232 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[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: 2023-26841]
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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 232 / Tuesday, December 5, 2023 /
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Proclamation 10680 of November 30, 2023
World AIDS Day, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On World AIDS Day, my message is simple: Let us finish
the fight.
Since recognizing the first World AIDS Day 35 years
ago, we have made enormous progress in preventing,
detecting, and treating HIV--greatly reducing annual
HIV diagnoses and transmission. But despite these
advancements, about 39 million people continue to live
with HIV, including more than one million people in the
United States. Far too often, people living with HIV
face discrimination that prevents them from accessing
the care they need. So, as we reflect on our progress
today, we must also come together to renew our promise
to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
At home, my Administration has taken historic steps to
achieve this goal. During my first year in office, I
reestablished the White House Office of National AIDS
Policy and launched a new National HIV/AIDS Strategy--a
roadmap for using innovative community-driven solutions
to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States by
2030. This year, my Administration also ended the
disgraceful practice of banning gay and bisexual men
from donating blood. We continue to work with State and
community leaders to repeal or reform so-called HIV
criminalization laws, which wrongly punish people for
exposing others to HIV. I have asked the Congress for
$850 million for the Department of Health and Human
Services' Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative to
aggressively reduce new HIV cases, fight the stigma
that stops many people from getting care, and increase
access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)--a critical
drug that can help prevent the spread of HIV.
We are also focused on ending HIV/AIDS as a public
health threat worldwide by 2030 under the bipartisan
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
PEPFAR has reduced transmissions, expanded testing, and
saved more than 25 million lives in over 50 partner
countries over the last two decades. Further, PEPFAR is
focusing on forging a future where every HIV infection
is prevented, every person has access to treatment, and
every generation can live free from the stigma that too
often surrounds HIV. My Administration is committed to
working with the Congress to pass a clean PEPFAR
reauthorization bill to extend this lifesaving
bipartisan program for 5 years and end HIV/AIDS by
2030.
We are within striking distance of eliminating HIV-
transmission. We have the science. We have the
treatments. Most of all, we have each other. On this
35th World AIDS Day--let us honor all the families who
have lost a loved one to this disease and all the
people currently living with HIV/AIDS. Let us remember
the activists, scientists, doctors, and caregivers who
have never given up in the fight against the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. Let us recommit to finishing this fight--
together.
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,
2023, 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
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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-three, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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