At one point during the ceremony, protesters took the stage to condemn the visa denials and inequalities in the global response to HIV.
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, has said that millions of lives are at risk due to disruptions in HIV care caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and declining funding for HIV response.
One of the messages of the conference is that if treatment has rendered the viral load undetectable, the virus is no longer transmissible.
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