Charlize Theron helps shine light on fast-track plan to end global AIDS threat
Reuters
2014-11-19
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Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron helped add a spotlight to the unveiling of the UN's new fast-track program that aims to end the global AIDS threat, when she joined a discussion on the epidemic on Tuesday (November 18).
Theron, a United Nations Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, joined UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, to outline the plan.
The report Fast-Track: Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 lays out a set of bold, new Fast-Track targets to be reached over the next five years to ensure that the world will end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The report also outlines the numbers of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths that will be averted by meeting the targets.
Theron says she believes that part of the effort needs to be with educating young people.
The HIV virus that causes AIDS is spread via blood, semen and breast milk. There is
Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron helped add a spotlight to the unveiling of the UN's new fast-track program that aims to end the global AIDS threat, when she joined a discussion on the epidemic on Tuesday (November 18).
Theron, a United Nations Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, joined UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé at the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, to outline the plan.
The report Fast-Track: Ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 lays out a set of bold, new Fast-Track targets to be reached over the next five years to ensure that the world will end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The report also outlines the numbers of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths that will be averted by meeting the targets.
Theron says she believes that part of the effort needs to be with educating young people.
The HIV virus that causes AIDS is spread via blood, semen and breast milk. There is
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