Pelosi Statement on World AIDS Day

"Every World AIDS Day, friends and allies in the struggle against HIV across the globe recommit to preventing, testing, treating and destroying this devastating disease.  We recognize that as a global epidemic, AIDS requires a global response – and that banishing HIV to the history books will require compassion, ingenuity, and energy from all of us.

"This World AIDS Day's theme, ‘Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free Generation' is a battle cry to renewed action and redoubled determination.  AIDS is a resourceful disease, ever mutating to escape our destruction. We must be even more resourceful and relentless in our fight against it – and even more united in our resolve to end it.

"Our loved ones living with HIV/AIDS know that this is a personal fight: to end stigma and create hope.  We honor their courage and stand by them to deal with this challenge on a global scale.  Today, as we remember family and friends who are no longer with us, and continue to increase awareness, prevention, and research towards a cure, let us renew our vow to end AIDS, once and for all."