[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17998-17999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             WORLD AIDS DAY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was World AIDS Day. And 
before I left my home district this morning, I gathered with longtime 
friends and fighters against the surge and the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
  Although we have come a long way and made a great difference, 50,000 
people are affected each year by HIV/

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AIDS. This is the 32nd year of the establishment or the announcement of 
the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and today some 34 million-plus around the 
world live with HIV/AIDS. Every 9\1/2\ minutes, someone in this country 
is infected with AIDS.
  So I stand here in salute of the Thomas Street Health Center and the 
AIDS Foundation, one, because of the health care that the Thomas Street 
Health Center gives and to be able to thank them for the litany and 
devotional that they provided for us, and to the AIDS Foundation, of 
course, to thank them for letting people live with AIDS and to have the 
comfort of those who will stand with them.
  I am also wearing another button today, and that is to salute those 
and to embrace those who are for the fasting families. We must have 
comprehensive immigration reform, and I stand with them to save lives, 
as well.

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