Prince Harry & Elton John Honor Princess Diana With New AIDS Campaign

Princess Diana's advocacy for AIDS awareness is still going strong via Prince Harry, who joined Sir Elton John on the second day of the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Tuesday morning (July 24) to launch the MenStar Coalition.

With a goal of sending AIDS by 2030, the global partnership is aimed at researching and halting male transmission of HIV infections. Before we hit that deadline, the coalition is set on increasing the uptake of testing and treatment. "I am honored to be sharing the stage with someone who has always put people at the center of his work, Sir Elton John," Harry said in a speech onstage during the event. "For over a quarter-century, Elton has worked tirelessly to fund research and services in communities around the world. And today, he has come to Amsterdam to announce his latest endeavor, a billion-dollar global partnership to break the cycle of male transmission of HIV, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa."

"We cannot solve the whole problem if we're only addressing half the situation," Elton John chimed in. "If we want to win this fight, if we want to end AIDS once and for all, we must make men part of the solution."

Elton John AIDS Foundation, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Unitaid, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Johnson & Johnson and Gilead Sciences serve as founders for the MenStar Coalition.

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