Time is too short
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Some countries have managed to slow the epidemic and limit the damage the disease causes among children, their families and communities. They face the challenge of sustaining these efforts.
But too many other countries have failed to stem the spread of this devastating disease. Their leaders and governments must act now to prevent further infection and provide treatment, care and support to all children and their families affected by HIV and AIDS.
The magnitude of the problems of children affected by HIV and AIDS dwarfs the scale of the existing response. Children and adolescents around the globe are increasingly at risk of infection, and many of those affected by the epidemic are being left to grow up alone, grow up too soon, or to not grow up at all.
Governments and agencies, activists and scientists, corporations and community workers, families, children and young people must join the many who are already working towards an AIDS-free generation, when
- Not one more child will die of AIDS,
- Not one more child will be infected with HIV, and
- Not one more child will lose a parent or a teacher or a friend to a pandemic that must be stopped.

