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UN Goal for HIV Treatment in 2015 Already Met

The United Nation AIDS agency met its 2015 goal of providing HIV treatment for 15 million people in March, nine months ahead of the goal.

According to the UN AIDS press release from today:

“New HIV infections have fallen by 35% and AIDS-related deaths by 41%. The global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million (7.8 million) AIDS-related deaths since 2000, when the MDGs [(Millenium Development Goals)] were set.”

Awareness of AIDS is extraordinarily important, especially because the disease has gained a reputation of otherness, with the public pointing fingers at homosexual men and promiscuity rather than recognizing the full extent of the issue.

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations said: “The world has delivered on halting and reversing the Aids epidemic. Now we must commit to ending the Aids epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals.”

The press release says that the world is on track to hit the investment target of $22 billion USD by 2015 and that with serious action taken in the next 5 years, the AIDS epidemic could be stopped by 2030.

The UNAIDS Agency has exceeded its set goals, but already looks to the future with optimism and determination, as we all should.