The 4th decade of aids what is needed to reshape the response / Michel Sidibé.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Sidibé, Michel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public Health.

Local Subjects:

Public Health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (4 pages)

Contained In:

UN Chronicle Vol. 48, no. 1, p. 4-7 48:1<4 15643913

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2012.

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text file

Summary:

The international community has reached the first part of Millennium Development Goal 6: halting and reversing the spread of HIV. At least fifty-six countries have either stabilized or reduced new HIV infections by more than 25 per cent in the past ten years, and this is especially evident in sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the epidemic. New HIV infections among children have dropped by 25 per cent, a significant step towards achieving the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission by 2015. In addition, today more than five million people are on antiretroviral treatment, which has reduced AIDS-related deaths by more than 20 per cent in the past five years. However, with more than 33 million people living with HIV today, 2.6 million new HIV infections, and nearly 2 million deaths in 2009, the gains made in the AIDS response are fragile.

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