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PR Newswire - November 28, 1995
Shared Rights, Shared Responsibilities
WHAT: The shared responsibility of our nation, communities, families, and teens, as well as of the media and the arts, to promote HIV/AIDS prevention and care will be addressed by the following participants:
Donna Shalala, Ph.D., Sec., US Dept. of Health & Human Services * Greg Louganis, Olympic champion * Lynn Redgrave, Actress * Billy Powell, Musician * Kim Fields Freeman, Actress * Jeanne White Ginder, Activist (Ryan White's mother) * David Brandling Bennett, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Dir., Pan American Health Organization
WHEN: Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, 12 noon - 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC
WHY: By June, 1995 the World Health Organization estimated that 20 million men, women, and children worldwide had been infected with HIV and that approximately 4.5 million had developed AIDS. In the US, as of June 1995, 476,899 people had been reported with AIDS to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Young people in particular are increasingly at risk for HIV/AIDS. WHO estimates that one in every four new infections occurs in an adolescent. Each year the number of adolescents infected with HIV doubles. World AIDS Day 1995, the eighth annual observance of World AIDS Day, will be commemorated in 190 countries around the world. Thus World AIDS Day program will launch HIV/AIDS education and prevention efforts around the country on December 1 and throughout the year, as well as unify Americans in the global fight against HIV/AIDS.
CONTACT: Jessica L. Muro of the American Association for World Health, 202-466-5883; or Kevin Neil of Metro TeenAIDS, 202-543-9355. 10:56 EST
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