United Nations rotate curve on war against AIDS

The United Nations described Thursday who enlarges the disease, smaller number of those are dying. Fewer people are contracting AIDS worldwide.

“It was a bold vision – some even called it a dream – but the world deserves no less than a future of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related death,” the UN said in its latest report on AIDS.

“New infections among children have declined dramatically for the second year in a row,” the report stated. Of the estimated 1.5 million pregnant women living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries in 2011, 57% received effective antiretroviral drugs to prevent transmission of HIV to their children – up from 48% in 2010. With the momentum being generated by the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, the international community has set a strong course to achieve an AIDS-free generation.”

A revolution in treatment of HIV has turned the spread of the disease around, the UN said.

“A decade of antiretroviral treatment has transformed HIV from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease,” the UN said. There is a real opportunity to eliminate new infections among children within the next three years, and our goal to ensure that 15 million people receive antiretroviral therapy by 2015 can be achieved.”