An end to the worldwide AIDS epidemic is in sight, the United Nations says, mainly due to better access to drugs that can both treat and prevent the incurable human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the disease.

Progress over the past decade has cut the death toll and helped stabilize the number of people infected with HIV, the U.N. AIDS program said in its annual report on Tuesday.

“The global community has embarked on an historic quest to lay the foundation for the eventual end of the AIDS epidemic. This effort is more than merely visionary. It is entirely feasible,” UNAIDS said.

Some 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2011, the report said. Deaths from AIDS fell to 1.7 million in 2011, down from a peak of 2.3 million in 2005 and from 1.8 million in 2010.

Worldwide, the number of people newly infected with HIV, which can be transmitted via blood and by semen during sex, is also falling. At 2.5 million, the number of new infections in 2011 was 20 percent lower than in 2001.

“Although AIDS remains one of the world’s most serious health challenges, global solidarity in the AIDS response during the past decade continues to generate extraordinary health gains,” the report said.

It said this was due to “historic success” in bringing HIV programs to scale, combined with the emergence of new combination drugs to prevent people from becoming HIV infected and from dying from AIDS.

“The pace of progress is quickening – what used to take a decade is now being achieved in 24 months,” said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS. “We are scaling up faster and smarter than ever before. It is the proof that with political will and follow through we can reach our shared goals.”

TIMELY TREATMENT

Since 1995, AIDS drug treatment – known as antiretroviral therapy – has saved 14 million life-years in poorer countries, including 9 million in sub-Saharan Africa, the report said.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the most severely affected region with almost one in every 20 adults infected, nearly 25 times the rate in Asia, there are also almost 5 million people with HIV in south, southeast and east Asia combined.

Some 8 million people were being treated with AIDS drugs by the end of 2011, a 20-fold increase since 2003. The United Nations has set a target to raise that to 15 million people by 2015.

“Scaling up HIV treatment to 15 million people … is feasible and has the crucial triple benefit of reducing illness, reducing death, and reducing the risk of transmission,” said Manica Balasegaram of the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

But he said the pace must be stepped up “so that every month more people are started on life-saving HIV treatment than the month before”.

Scientific studies have shown that getting timely treatment to those with HIV can also cut the number of people who become newly infected with the virus.

UNAIDS said the sharpest declines in new HIV infections since 2001 were in the Caribbean and in sub-Saharan Africa – where new infections were down 25 percent in a decade.

Despite this, sub-Saharan Africa still accounted for 71 percent of people newly infected in 2011, underscoring the need to boost HIV prevention efforts in the region, UNAIDS said. Of the 1.7 million AIDS-related deaths in 2011, 1.2 million were in sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV trends are also a concern in other regions, it said.

Since 2001, the number of new HIV infections in the Middle East and North Africa was up more than 35 percent from 27,000 to 37,000, it said, and evidence suggests HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia began increasing in the late 2000s after being relatively stable for several years.
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Great News!
My only fear is that; One gets a Healing Drug, another more Deadly One Shows up!
This is good News though, i can see a future where HIV will be just like Ordinary Fever! (pray So O!)

Eh Bien, Now I can straff without control.

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useless story .Does it amount to finding a cure yet?Antiretroviral is not a cure.They so much love the AIDS scourge they had it in their continents and brought it to Africa,if not the useless dogs that allowed themselves to be screwed.Sometimes am forced to assert that there are other ways the deadly scourge spreads and not necessarily sex but through other clandestine means

OK

MAKE THEM SHOW FOR BENUE ABEG

please everybody should try and do a research on eugenics.it will reveal some very interesting things i feel everybody is entitled to know and the united nations agenda 21

indeed antiretovirals are not cures to HIV/aids.it just another way to squeeze cash from those infected and a means to reduce the population.please don't believe me,prince Philip said it himself

Imagine the possibilities of an HIV-free generation! It still begins with you.

Abeeegiii...

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yeye news. mtchewwwwww

They have realised that the awareness of the scam behind the whole AIDS issue by pharmeceutical companies is growing and it is imminent that the whole world would soon realise the evil they have been perpetuating. So they want to bring an end to it before it blows over. Open your eyes! recent incidents have been pointing to the validity of the conspiracy theory. From HIV vaccines to reduced infections to complete eradication. Please!

Their is nothing Like HIV or AIDs. Its just a multibillion dollar business just like Oil business. Don't believe everything these white people tell u. If you live a healthy life-style, you are already healthy!

Solidbroda,

There is only one way of finding out if AIDS is real: sleep around unprotected for three months, visit all known prostitutes, then go have yourself tested.

That should be easy to do, shouldn't it?

This "AIDS-does-not-exist" delusion is at the very root of the problem. To come to a public board to spout such nonsense is sad indeed.

FG

^^
e don tire them? No be the same oyinbo wey do virus do antivirus?
Una jes enter store bring out the cure wey u don hide since. We knw until u knw the trigger factor of a biological weapon, you'll spend yrs looking for the cure which will alwys fall short of order until the real cure, which from inception, has been created based on it's components of the original virus, is manufactured. Bring am come from store where u keep am. I no kukuma get one, na condom be the only market i dey help u buy since!

deelummy: You actually don't have to call me a liar. All you need are facts.
Tell me sincerely if you ever have seen some1 that has HIV related AIDS.
You should know ARFH.

I never knew people like you still existed. A neighbour of mine and the daughter of a family friend died in 1987 and 1992 of AIDS. The first one shook our neighbourhood because it was like: how did this illness we heard Frank Olize talk about on a Newsline program earlier that year surface right in our neighbourhood?

I remember then that people started avoiding that family like a plague. So I not only witnessed one of the first fatalities of HIV in Nigeria, I saw the stigmatization that went with it. My folks were actually scared because we had all been innoculated with the yellow fever vaccine in school in December of 1986, but there was nothing to fear because everyone was shot with a new syringe unlike the vaccine gun (single stuff used for many people) that was used in the small pox eradication campaign of the 70s which I am sure contributed to the spread of the virus then.

SO Mr Man or whoever you dumbo are, better shine your eyes if you are still a doubter.

[size=30pt]Sterilize all of them! that is the only way.[/size]

Those of you that believes that HIV, please findout for yourself if a virus called Hiv has been isolated in the laboratory. And when hiv test is conducted findout what the test looks for. Many said they had seen people that died of AIDS, please answer this question is there a disease called aids. Plz I waiting for your positive and constructive comments. Will be back

hmm

Aids is real but HIV is fake!
Read this:
www.reducetheburden.org/aids-is-real-hiv-is-fake/

So dey r thru wit aids now,dey want to introduce anoda one abi? Issorite!

Wat Next after AIDS......20th century Invented Diseases....

Hiv and aids is a man made disease created to eliminate some part of africa unfortunatly spread the whole world but the americans are not complianing even they kept the drugs before that ,magic johnson has been taking this drug years before it anounced

lastround: Those of you that believes that HIV, please findout for yourself if a virus called Hiv has been isolated in the laboratory. And when hiv test is conducted findout what the test looks for. Many said they had seen people that died of AIDS, please answer this question is there a disease called aids. Plz I waiting for your positive and constructive comments. Will be back

I hope you get hit by a bus.

deelummy: You actually don't have to call me a liar. All you need are facts.
Tell me sincerely if you ever have seen some1 that has HIV related AIDS.
You should know ARFH.

I'm really amazed at your comment. What was your role in the organisation by the way?

lastround: Those of you that believes that HIV, please findout for yourself if a virus called Hiv has been isolated in the laboratory. And when hiv test is conducted findout what the test looks for. Many said they had seen people that died of AIDS, please answer this question is there a disease called aids. Plz I waiting for your positive and constructive comments. Will be back

Omg. I'm not gonna post a reply to this.

Who can tell the house the test that is carried to comfirm that someone has aids.