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To mark world AIDS DayDozens of workers, including people who live together hiv“Die In” staged in Trafalgar Squaredemanding that the British Government Reversing cuts to HIV treatment and prevention services.
Members of the protest group ACT UP held placards shaped like graves and chanted: “We mourn the dead, we fight like hell for the living.”
They then held a minute’s silence and held red roses to symbolize the millions of people who have died from AIDS-related illnesses and “to condemn government complicity in preventable deaths.”
The move follows Britain’s decision to cut £150 million of funding to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria – a move predicted to put 250,000 lives at risk and which many fear will jeopardize targets to end new HIV transmissions and AIDS-related deaths by 2030.