World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Remarks at the Opening Plenary of the International AIDS Conference 2012
Your Excellencies and honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends,
As we look back on the history of this epidemic, it is hard to say that there is any one moment when the tide began to turn. Because the truth is that we have been turning back the tide of AIDS, step by painful step, for 30 years.
And at nearly every turn, it is the activists, and their communities, that have led the way.
It was activists and communities who devised safer sex, promoted condom use, needle exchange and virtually all the behavioral prevention we use today.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Ending AIDS and Poverty
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim Remarks at the Opening Plenary of the International AIDS Conference 2012
Your Excellencies and honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends,
As we look back on the history of this epidemic, it is hard to say that there is any one moment when the tide began to turn. Because the truth is that we have been turning back the tide of AIDS, step by painful step, for 30 years.
And at nearly every turn, it is the activists, and their communities, that have led the way.
It was activists and communities who devised safer sex, promoted condom use, needle exchange and virtually all the behavioral prevention we use today.
See full Transcript.
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