Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise

Efforts to halt AIDS are falling far short of their targets. Over 25 million people have been lost to AIDS so far, and 4.3 million people were infected with HIV this year. The spread of HIV is quickening – with more people infected in 2006 than in any previous year. This is despite the number of promises by world leaders to provide services to curb the rates of infection and to bring down deaths.

At the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001, heads of state and government committed themselves to meeting a number of key goals to fight AIDS.

By 2005, 90 percent of young people were supposed to know how to prevent AIDS. In reality only 20 percent of young women and 30 percent of young men had this knowledge.

By 2005, 80 percent of pregnant women living with HIV were supposed to be receiving the simple treatment that can prevent their children from contracting the virus. This treatment costs just a few dollars, yet only 9 percent received it.


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