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At a plenary session on HIV/AIDS at
the UN General Assembly, Brazil’s deputy permanent representative called for
more comprehensive education on how to prevent HIV/AIDS.
“Comprehensive education on
sexuality must be made available together with the expansion of access to
essential preventive commodities, particularly male and female condoms,"
said Regina Maria Cordeiro Dunlop. She recommended that governments put in
place “strategies that adequately focus on the needs of populations that are at
higher risk of infection, in particular injecting drug users, sex workers, and
men who have sex with men.”
“Discrimination, limited access to
health services, and lack of specific HIV-prevention policies contribute to
making these key affected populations disproportionately vulnerable to the
infection,” Dunlop added.
Dunlop emphasized the importance of
access to treatment, which she identified as one of the chief struggles in the
battle against AIDS. “Price is still one of the main obstacles to [increasing]
availability and accessibility of medicines for both institutions and
individuals,” she said.
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dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
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