Elton John announced a new initiative to raise $125 million with the goal of eliminating AIDS by 2030.
is in the midst of his farewell tour. But on Monday, he and his husband,are announcing a project that proves his legacy is just beginning. More than 30 years after its founding, the Elton John AIDS Foundation is announcing the Rocket Fund, an initiative to raise $125 million for the fight against the virus that launched a world-altering epidemic in the 1980s and continues to affect millions to this day.
She says she sees the fund as an opportunity to get a younger generation already excited by the fashion and culture of the 1980s and 1990s involved in the fight that shaped her work in the era and the life of her late brother, Gianni. It’s also a way to honor John for the work he has done combating stigma during the fearful environment that the AIDS crisis created.
One motivation to start the fund came from the fact that with treatment, HIV can be managed as a chronic health condition, and some medications can make the virus undetectable in a patient’s blood, preventing the progression to AIDS entirely. But according to the foundation, 13% of HIV positive people in the United States don’t know their status, and many who have been diagnosed don’t have adequate access to potentially lifesaving treatments.
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