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We will not go back!
9 April 2007
Third Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health
A statement of people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies at the Third Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health Johannesburg, Africa.
Since people living with HIV/AIDS and their allies took to the streets in Durban, South Africa during the international AIDS conference in 2000, we
have refused to be told that our lives are expendable and AIDS treatment is only for those who can afford to purchase antiretroviral therapy (ART).
We have made great strides together in these past seven years-hundreds of thousands of African men, women and children are now receiving ART and are
living healthy and productive lives.
As our Ministers of Health meet this week in Johannesburg we are demanding that our governments keep the promises they made and specific targets they
agreed to in Abuja in 2006 to universal access to a comprehensive package of AIDS treatment, prevention and care. These are commitments that have been endorsed by all heads of states-they have yet to be implemented.
We are concerned that the documents being considered at the African Health Ministers' Summit this week give scant attention to AIDS treatment, and in
particular ART. Even the Draft Implementation Plan for Achieving Universal Access to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Services, fails to mention the
targets for treatment committed to in Abuja last year or outline specific steps for ensuring that all people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) who need
treatment receive it by 2010.
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