features - issue 82
Barcelona VOICES
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Maire Bopp-Dupont We struggle for $10 billion to fight Aids. Yet we hear that the US spent $1.8 billion a month on its military campaign in Afghanistan. HIV is a security matter too
Maire Bopp-Dupont, first Pacific islander living openly with HIV

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Just because we are poor, just because we are black, just because we live in environments and continents that are far from you, does not mean that our lives should be valued any less
Zackie Achmat, of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign
Zackie Achmat
Joep Lange
If we can get Coca Cola and cold beer to every remote corner of Africa, it should not be impossible to do the same with drugs... Access to treatment needs to be organised like a military operation
Joep Lange, President of the IAS
Noerine Kaleeba
Every time a person with HIV like me sticks their neck out they incur stigma. People who come out to give a face to Aids end up being stigmatised themselves
Noerine Kaleeba of UNAIDS, founder of TASO in Uganda
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