America Living With AIDS

CONCLUSION
ver the past two years the National
Commission on AIDS has called for federal leadership in the HIV epidemic and for
the creation of partnerships at all levels of government and in the private sector. We
have also emphasized the need to develop and assure access to a system of health care
for all people with HIV disease. The fundamental right of all people with HIV disease to be protected against discrimination has guided all of our work. We have conducted numerous hearings and site visits, heard from nearly one thousand people
across the country, and have issued a series of interim reports designed to focus on
topics that we thought were particularly important and urgent to bring to the attention of the President and Congress. This report is intended to underscore the importance of all of these efforts, as well as linking HIV prevention, care, treatment, and
research, and improving the coordination of all of the mechanisms designed to pay
for these programs.
In the coming year, the National Commission on AIDS will continue to bring
urgent matters to the attention of the President and the Congress; to monitor the
adoption and implementation of the recommendations contained in this report; to
seek to build a broad public understanding on the magnitude, scope, and urgency of
the HIV epidemic; to provide and inspire leadership at all levels of both public and
private sectors; and to advocate for effective, cooperative, and nondiscriminatory systems and resources required for the prevention, comprehensive care and treatment,
and research necessary to halt the epidemic.
There is still much to do. The National Commission on AIDS calls on all of our
nation's leaders to enter into partnership with us to work with the individuals and
communities throughout the United States who have for too long felt forgotten or
abandoned by their government.

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