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"I beg you, […] it's something we can not let down," said Clinton on the final day of the 22nd International AIDS Conference, which brought together in Amsterdam some 15,000 researchers, activists, and people infected with HIV
"By a combination of complacency in some places, and open hostility to multinational cooperation efforts in others, there is a serious risk that many people say, "Let's stop doing that," said Bill Clinton, a long-time campaigner in the fight against AIDS.
In 2017, the infection killed 940,000 people and 36.9 million people died. estimated that 15.2 million did not have access to adequate treatment.
"About 35 people will die while I'm here talking," Clinton said, pointing out according to the UN, 1.8 million people nes were newly infected in 2017 with HIV
After more than three decades of research, the virus that attacks the immune system and causes AIDS remains incurable and unvaccinated. It has infected some 80 million people since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s.
A decrease in intensity in the fight against the disease would have "devastating" consequences and would support "the chances of a return to epidemic proportions with vertiginous negative consequences, "insisted the former US president.
The return of an epidemic could" derail the sanitary conditions and ruin the economic and social objectives of a good number of countries, leaving behind a devastated landscape, "he continued.
There is" almost certain "that an HIV vaccine and a cure for AIDS are at hand," but we are not not yet there, we must hold on, "concluded Bill Clinton.
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