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12
Juli
2002

Mandela calls for expanded treatment access at the Barcelona AIDS conference

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Biografie ๐Ÿ“… 12 Juli 2002 ๐Ÿ“ Zuid-Afrika

At the 14th International AIDS Conference, Mandela urged leaders to treat HIV/AIDS as a public health and human rights crisis and pressed for access to affordable treatment. His advocacy connected global inequality in medicine access to lives across Africa. It also came after criticism that his own presidency had not given the epidemic sufficient priority; his later public interventions helped confront stigma but could not substitute for state policy.

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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Nelson Mandela

Organisaties in dit Evenement

International AIDS Society

HIV/AIDS activists

Nelson Mandela Foundation