WHO noted “global progress in both preventing and treating HIV in a new report by WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS: Report on the global HIV/AIDS response http://www.who.int/entity/hiv/pub/progress_report2011/en/index.html. The report emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term and ”indicates that increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade, and a 22% decline in AIDS-related deaths in the last five years.” Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of WHO’s HIV Department, said, “It has taken the world ten years to achieve this level of momentum. There is now a very real possibility of getting ahead of the epidemic. But this can only be achieved by both sustaining and accelerating this momentum over the next decade and beyond.”

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