Obama launches new measures

The President Barack Obama set yesterday Thursday an ambitious goal to significantly increase access to AIDS drugs for people in United States and the world, announcing a renewed commitment to us to put an end to the pandemic that has killed 30 million people.

"We can overcome this disease," said Obama in a ceremony in Washington on the occasion of World AIDS Day.

Former Presidents George w. Bush and Bill Clinton participated via satellite. Obama promised U.S. support to help six million people in countries severely affected by the virus to have access to drugs by the end of 2013, increasing the original purpose of 4 million people.

President announced also plans to increase spending in treatment of HIV in United States for $ 50 million. "The rate of new infections could be declining elsewhere, but not in United States", he said. "You have" u000acommunities in this country are still being ravaged by this disease. "With an increase in new infections among young people, blacks and gay men from almost 50% in three years, we must do more to show them that their lives are important".

As part of new initiatives abroad, United States Obama also plans to carry medicines retroviral 1.5 million pregnant women infected with HIV to prevent him passing the infection to their babies, distributing more than 1,000 million condoms in the developing world in the next two years, and finance 4.7 million medical circumcisions voluntary.

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