World AIDS Day 2024 – December 1, 2024
Under the theme “Take the rights path: My health, my right!”, WHO is calling on global leaders and citizens to champion the right to health by addressing the inequalities that hinder progress in ending AIDS.
- In 2023, an estimated 39.9 million people were living with HIV globally
- Approximately 630 000 people died from HIV‑related causes in 2023
- An estimated 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2023
The Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care has been providing care for people living with and impacted by HIV/AIDS for over 30 years. It is an important part of our origin story, and a client group we continue to care for today. Our programs are not preventative, but support people living with HIV/AIDS impacts, assisting in times of medical crisis: as adults age with comorbidities that complicate their symptom management, or deal with side-effects of decades of taking antiviral medications; and, as young adults transition to adulthood, or deal with medication fatigue.
Managing HIV/AIDS can be a long and isolated marathon of challenges. Fortunately, it is not without hope, in safe support groups, a specialized community of care, and one-on-one counseling.
Hospice care is one valuable “My health, my right!” treatment for this ongoing global healthcare need.
For more on our PAC origin story serving people with HIV/AIDS:
https://paceh.ca/who-we-are/mission-and-history/
Recent impacts from the program are highlighted in our Annual Report:
https://paceh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Annual-Report-Philip-Aziz-Emilys-House-23-24-High-Res-PDF-oct-15.24.pdf
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