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1,000 Gather In Times Square For World AIDS Day Demonstration

Nearly 1,000 people took to Times Square today, World AIDS Day, to call for an end to the epidemic in New York State

According to Housing Works, a New York-based AIDS services organization, New York carried the highest HIV burden in the U.S, since the pandemic began in 1981, and  "has the people, institutions, resources and political will to end our AIDS epidemic and to become a leader nationally and globally in showing how to end AIDS."

Demonstrators from Gay Men's Health Crisis, ACT UP, AIDS Service Center of New York, Harlem United, Planned Parenthood and elsewhere gathered on Seventh Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets at about 2pm.

Their stories were varied, but all were passionate about fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. ACT UP's Mathew Rodriguez told CBS News he wanted to see the government “diverting more resources and more funds to get more people on treatment, because getting HIV-positive people on treatment helps stop the transmission of the virus."

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