Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 71, No. 232 

Monday, December 4, 2006 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 8087 of November 30, 2006 

World AIDS Day, 2006 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

HIV/AIDS is a global health crisis and a constant struggle for many of 

our families, friends, and neighbors. On World AIDS Day, we underscore 

our commitment to fight the AIDS pandemic with compassion and decisive 

action. 

America leads the world in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and through the 

Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief we are combating the disease in countries 

around the world. Through the New Partners Initiative, we are supporting 

faith-based and community organizations that offer much of the health care 

in the developing world, so that we can reach more people more effectively. 

In addition, the United States and other concerned countries are promoting 

a comprehensive strategy to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. This includes 

the ABC approach—encouraging abstinence, being faithful, and using 

condoms, with abstinence as the only sure way to avoid the sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS. 

As we work to fight HIV/AIDS globally, we must also ensure our citizens 

at home have the resources and support they need for treatment and prevention of this disease. Today, more than 1 million Americans are living with 

HIV/AIDS, and many of these individuals are unaware that they are infected. 

We will continue to provide medical care, counseling, and testing for those 

in greatest need of HIV/AIDS assistance, and I have asked the Congress 

to reform and reauthorize the Ryan White CARE Act and provide new 

funding to improve distribution of HIV/AIDS medicines in America. The 

Federal Government is also working closely with faith-based and other community organizations to provide services to individuals with HIV/AIDS and 

end the stigma of AIDS. 

America is blessed with scientific knowledge and compassionate citizens, 

and we are guided by our founding conviction that each life has matchless 

value. On World AIDS Day and throughout the year, we stand with our 

friends and partners around the world in the urgent struggle to fight this 

virus, comfort those who are affected, and save lives. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim December 1, 2006, as 

World AIDS Day. I urge the Governors of the States and the Commonwealth 

of Puerto Rico, officials of the other territories subject to the jurisdiction 

of the United States, and the American people to join me in appropriate 

activities to remember those who have lost their lives to AIDS, to work 

to prevent this deadly disease, and to comfort and support those living 

with HIV/AIDS. 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day 

of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first. 

[FR Doc. 06–9537 

Filed 12–1–06; 10:44 am] 

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