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'Communities must help end AIDS'

THE Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) urged governments in the Asia-Pacific region to fully empower the grassroots communities to help end acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a public health threat.

Likewise, the organization called on communities' leadership roles to be made core in all human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) plans and programs and for community-led organizations to be fully funded.