An end to Aids?

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Over the four decades since the pandemic took off, we have seen around 40 million people worldwide killed by HIV. Today, around the same number of people are living with the virus, and many of them are long-term survivors. In 2015, an end to the pandemic by 2030 was adopted as one of the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goals and signed up to by all member states. Sue Armstrong and Noerine Kaleeba report on the impressive progress made in controlling the spread of HIV and ask whether the goal of an end to the Aids pandemic by 2030 is really possible.

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0:00.0	Out there somewhere, alone and frightened.
0:07.0	At the UN General Assembly, I stood up and I could see that everybody was half asleep. They weren't listening so I passed into song.
0:17.0	Today it's me.
0:20.0	Tomorrow someone else. I sang a song by Phili Retire, one of the greatest musicians in Uganda,
0:28.8	soon after he was diagnosed with AIDS. So I sang alone and frightened.
0:35.0	Let's stand together. Fight AIDS.
0:40.0	Hello, I'm Noreen Kaliva.
0:42.0	And I'm Sue Armstrong.
0:44.0	In this BBC World Service documentary,
0:46.0	we're looking at the impressive progress
0:48.0	made in controlling the spread of HIV,
0:51.0	the virus that causes AIDS.
0:53.0	And we are asking whether the goal of an end to the pandemic by 2030 is really attainable.
0:59.4	As a science journalist, I followed the AIDS story from the first mention of a strange new virus in 1981.
1:06.8	And Norin, you have some very personal experience of HIV.
1:10.0	Can you tell us a little of your story?
1:12.0	Yes indeed.
1:12.5	In 1986, my late husband, Christopher Carreba,
1:16.2	had come to England to study at Harley University.
1:20.2	It was while he was there that he was diagnosed with AIDS.
1:23.0	It was a big shock that prompted both him and I to decide to do something about this disease.
1:31.0	Just before he died, we began to organize and mobilize others who
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