In advance of world’s AIDS day, United Nation’s new report shows that world has started fighting back the greatest epidemic on earth. Global awareness and successive therapeutic intervention have forced the incidence of new HIV infection and its related death to decline sharply. The report predicts an end of the HIV epidemic by 2030. United Nations AIDS control program (UNAIDS) has recently reported that There were 2 million new HIV infections around the world in 2014–15, the lowest since 2000 when 3.1 million people worldwide were diagnosed with HIV.
Deaths from AIDS, the last stages of HIV infection, are also coming down, from a high of 2 million in the early 2000s to 1.2 million this year. In Asia-pacific region, HIV infections declined by 31% in the period of 2000-2014. A snapshot of the report is as follows There is 35% decrease in new HIV infection There is a 42% decrease in…
