(Source: United Nations General Assembly) The General Assembly's three-day high-level plenary meeting on HIV/AIDS concluded today amid calls for redoubled efforts and greater funding to eradicate the epidemic by 2030, as called for in the Sustainable Development Goals. In closing remarks, Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft (Denmark) said speakers had repeatedly stressed that 'together, we have the power, the resources, the knowledge and the technology to fast-track our HIV/AIDS response and to make ending the AIDS epidemic one of the first - and one of the many - amazing successes of the SDG era.' 'The question now, however, is whether we have the will and the humanity to make this happen,'...
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