After twenty years’ experience and hundreds of conferences and seminars, it is time to move beyond the endlessly repeated statistics, and to face the AIDS challenge head-on with effective specific solutions. We know what must be done to prevent further infection, expand care, treatment, and support, and reduce stigma and discrimination.
— Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative of the Secretary General for HIV/AIDS, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2006