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WORLD AIDS DAY 2004
Gracia Violeta Ross Quiroga is a 27-year old Bolivian woman. Since 2000, the year in which she discovered that she was HIV+, she has been an advocate for the human rights of people living with HIV, especially women in Bolivia and the rest of Latin America. She serves as a representative of the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) for the Andean sub region and is a member of the Latin American Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (REDLA). Violeta became known worldwide after she delivered one of the speeches at the closing ceremony of the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2004.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has produced two public service announcements with Gracia Violeta Ross calling for the need for all women and girls to have access to the information and the means necessary to protect them from the AIDS virus.
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