{"id":294,"date":"2014-12-01T18:44:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=294"},"modified":"2016-12-09T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T18:44:37","slug":"joint-statement-by-speaker-melissa-mark-viverito-and-health-committee-chair-corey-johnson-re-world-aids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/12\/01\/294\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement by Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Health Committee Chair Corey Johnson Re: World AIDS Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWorld AIDS Day is a time for us to reflect on those we have lost, celebrate our survivors, and thank those who have dedicated their lives to finding a cure. New York is a leader in the fight against AIDS; in the 1980s, our HIV\/AIDS, LGBT and other allied communities rallied to raise awareness at a time when HIV\/AIDS was ignored or unjustly stigmatized. Today, we continue that fight by committing to end HIV\/AIDS by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>HIV\/AIDS is intrinsically linked to longstanding issues of social injustice, and to effectively combat this disease we must also address its social symptoms: homelessness, poverty, gaps in healthcare access, as well as sexual and racial discrimination. That is why the New York City Council passed legislation prioritizing a 30 percent rent cap for those who are permanently disabled by HIV\/AIDS. We  are staunch and committed in our ongoing efforts to ensure New York is a global and domestic leader in the fight against HIV\/AIDS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>##<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWorld AIDS Day is a time for us to reflect on those we have lost, celebrate our survivors, and thank those who have dedicated their lives to finding a cure. New York is a leader in the fight against AIDS; in the 1980s, our HIV\/AIDS, LGBT and other allied communities rallied to raise awareness at a time when HIV\/AIDS was ignored or unjustly stigmatized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2014\/12\/01\/294\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}