UN sets new HIV/Aids targets

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UN sets new HIV/Aids targets

Posted Monday, June 13 2011 at 00:00

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new declaration to have 15

million more people living with HIV/Aids globally put on treatment by 2015.

The declaration, which was agreed to at the end of a high level Aids review

meeting that concluded on Friday in New York, also targets to reduce

tuberculosis related deaths among people living with HIV/Aids by half and end

mother-to-child transmission.

A report released last week by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids

(UNAIDS), revealed that globally, some 6.6 million people are receiving

life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs in middle and low income countries.

At the end of 2010 some nine million people who were eligible for treatment did

not have access to them.

The highest rates

Uganda remains one of the countries with a high rate of HIV/Aids, with 130,000

new infections occurring every year and a huge treatment gap which increases the

number of people requiring treatment.

" This declaration is strong, the targets are time-bound and set a clear and

workable road map, not only for the next five years, but beyond, " said Mr ph

Deiss, the president of the United Nations General Assembly.

The new targets also come at a time of dwindling resources for the global Aids

response. According to the UNAIDS, some $22 billion is needed globally between

now and 2015 to fight HIV/Aids, $6 billion more than is available.

The focus

The declaration notes that HIV prevention strategies inadequately focus on

populations at higher risk specifically homosexuals, drug users and sex workers

and calls on countries to focus their response based on epidemiological and

national contexts.

The declaration also calls on all UN member countries to redouble their efforts

to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by

2015 as a critical step towards ending the global Aids epidemic.

They also pledged to eliminate gender inequality, abuse and violence and to

increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from

HIV infection.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1179586/-/c0s232z/-/index.html

[Guest guest]

UN sets new HIV/Aids targets

Posted Monday, June 13 2011 at 00:00

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new declaration to have 15

million more people living with HIV/Aids globally put on treatment by 2015.

The declaration, which was agreed to at the end of a high level Aids review

meeting that concluded on Friday in New York, also targets to reduce

tuberculosis related deaths among people living with HIV/Aids by half and end

mother-to-child transmission.

A report released last week by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids

(UNAIDS), revealed that globally, some 6.6 million people are receiving

life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs in middle and low income countries.

At the end of 2010 some nine million people who were eligible for treatment did

not have access to them.

The highest rates

Uganda remains one of the countries with a high rate of HIV/Aids, with 130,000

new infections occurring every year and a huge treatment gap which increases the

number of people requiring treatment.

" This declaration is strong, the targets are time-bound and set a clear and

workable road map, not only for the next five years, but beyond, " said Mr ph

Deiss, the president of the United Nations General Assembly.

The new targets also come at a time of dwindling resources for the global Aids

response. According to the UNAIDS, some $22 billion is needed globally between

now and 2015 to fight HIV/Aids, $6 billion more than is available.

The focus

The declaration notes that HIV prevention strategies inadequately focus on

populations at higher risk specifically homosexuals, drug users and sex workers

and calls on countries to focus their response based on epidemiological and

national contexts.

The declaration also calls on all UN member countries to redouble their efforts

to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by

2015 as a critical step towards ending the global Aids epidemic.

They also pledged to eliminate gender inequality, abuse and violence and to

increase the capacity of women and adolescent girls to protect themselves from

HIV infection.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1179586/-/c0s232z/-/index.html