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.”
