"For this year's campaign, UNAIDS is putting particular focus on the need for zero discrimination in health-care settings," Dujarric added. It is unacceptable that discrimination is inhibiting access to care today," said Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the UNAIDS, in his message for Zero Discrimination Day. "Eliminating discrimination in health-care settings is critical, and we must demand that it become a reality," Sidibe added. Each year on March 1, the world marks Zero Discrimination Day "to highlight how everyone can be part of the transformation and take a stand for a fair and just societyUnited Nations, March 2, 2017: The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Wednesday marked Zero Discrimination Day with a "Make Some Noise" campaign, urging people to speak up against discrimination. Each year on March 1, the world marks Zero Discrimination Day "to highlight how everyone can be part of the transformation and take a stand for a fair and just society," the UN agency said in a press release.
How common is it for people living with HIV to suffer from strokes, heart attacks and heart disease? Heart disease, in particular, has emerged as a leading cause of death in people living with HIV – and yet no specifically tailored treatments exist to prevent heart disease in this population. Additionally, some anti-HIV medications are associated with side effects that put people at a higher risk of developing heart disease. Studies show that certain conventional risk factors for heart disease, like smoking cigarettes, tend to be more common in people living with HIV. Carl Dieffenbach: REPRIEVE will principally answer whether statins should be prescribed to people living with HIV to prevent heart disease and its life-threatening consequences.
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