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Dept/ Agency: Offices of Municipal Council/City Clerk
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Supporting the goals of World AIDS Day
Purpose: Commemorating World AIDS Day
Sponsor(s): Council Vice-President, LaMonica R. McIver
Additional Information: 2021 marks the 40th Anniversary of the HIV epidemic.
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WHEREAS, the Municipal Council of the City of Newark recognize that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), is one of the world's most serious health and development challenges. Approximately 38 million people are currently living with HIV, including 1,800,000 children and tens of millions of people have died of AIDs-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals established a global target to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030; and
WHEREAS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was launched in 2002, and, as of 2020, has helped provide antiretroviral therapy to approximately 21,900,000 people living with HIV/AIDS - an 8.8% increase compared to 2019 despite COVID-19 and to 729,000 pregnant women to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS to their children, saving an estimated 32,000,000 lives; and
WHEREAS, the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program remains the largest commitment in history by any country to combat a single disease to date. Its funding has totaled more than $100 billion, including funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), to which the U.S. Government is the largest donor. PEPFAR is credited with savings millions of lives and helping to change the trajectory of the global HIV epidemic; and
WHEREAS, as of 2020, PEPFAR has supported testing services for nearly 50 million people, including prevented 2.8 million babies from being born with HI...
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