(Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
TUESDAY, July 13, 2010 – At a White House ceremony, President Barack Obama and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, the first ever comprehensive strategic plan in response to domestic AIDS in the near 30-year history of the epidemic. The strategy focuses on three main areas:
1. Reducing the number of people who become infected with HIV;
2. Increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV; and,
3. Reducing HIV-related health disparities, specifically among the most disproportionately affected groups namely Black Americans and men who have sex with men.
At the announcement ceremony, the President spoke about the need to address the epidemic across the country by reducing stigma and increasing knowledge, as well as the importance of targeted populations and areas hardest hit. In addition to the release of the strategy, the White House released a federal implementation plan with specific goals for federal agencies, Congress, and to some extent other partners.
Watch a segment of the President’s speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_09wSN_pFmw
Read the President’s remarks: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-national-hivaids-strategy
Read the strategy here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/onap/nhas
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