On the eve of World AIDS Day, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. government must "stand against any efforts" to discriminate against the LGBT community worldwide, reports the Advocate.
Every year on December 1, people all over the world remember those they have lost through the disease and all of those that have survived and thrived through decades of medicinal research.
During the ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Clinton announced that the International AIDS Society has agreed to hold its 2012 International Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C.
The last conference was held in San Francisco 20 years ago in 1989, but was banned from taking place in the United States soon after due to passage of a US law prohibiting people with HIV from traveling into the country.
Jeffrey Crowley, the openly gay director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, said President Obama is "thrilled" the International Conference will be held in Washington in 2012.
Clinton noted that discrimination against LGBT people and others have hindered many efforts at HIV outreach and treatment, making the fight against discrimination essential to the fight against HIV.
Discrimination against LGBT people, she said, is "an unacceptable step backwards" in the fight for human rights generally "and undermines the effect of efforts to fight disease worldwide." |
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