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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Liz Cookman

No consensus on UN declaration on AIDS fight for first time in more than two decades

The United Nations has adopted a new political declaration on fighting HIV/AIDS, but for the first time in more than two decades it was not agreed by consensus after the US and seven other countries voted against it.

The declaration, endorsed by 149 UN member states at a high-level meeting in New York, is meant to reaffirm global commitments to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

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