00:00and let me hold up the report to start with so you can all have a look about
00:04as we launch UNAIDS World AIDS Day event. This report shows that upholding
00:16laws and policies and practices and practices that block communities
00:21and peer counselors. The AIDS response is at a crossroads.
00:301.3 million people around the world newly acquired HIV, three times more than the
00:48global target set for 2025 of no more than 370,000 new HIV infections in a year.
00:55Of the almost 40 million people living with HIV, 9.3 million people are still not accessing
01:02life-saving treatment. And last year alone, 630,000 people died of AIDS.
01:09In at least 28 countries, the number of new HIV infections is on the rise.
01:14To bring down the trajectory of new HIV infections and of AIDS-related death,
01:19it is imperative that life-saving HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care
01:24can be reached without fear by all who need them, no matter who they are and where they live.
01:30But when girls are denied education, when there is impunity for gender-based violence,
01:36and when people can be arrested for who they are or who they love,
01:41the result is that people are blocked from care. This drives the AIDS pandemic.
01:46So today, as UNAIDS, we call on leaders to remove discriminatory laws that violate human rights,
01:53to resource community-led responses to protect human rights, and to take a human rights approach
01:58to enable access to medical innovations for people in every region of the world.
02:03The AIDS response is at a crossroads. Upholding the human rights of everyone is the path that ends AIDS.
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