Conclusion: Challenges
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“Based on current trends, AIDS will kill 68 million
people in the 45 worst-affected countries over the
next 20 years. But this need not happen. We know
prevention works. The global AIDS response is
poised to enter a new era, in which leadership
and commitment are at long last matched with the
resources needed to get on with the job. Investment
in HIV/AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives
saved and communities held together.”
Peter Piot
Executive Director, UNAIDS
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HIV prevention initiatives are underway in
nearly all of the more than 140 countries in
which the Fund operates. This is good news,
especially when factored alongside the many
other actions taken by partners in UNAIDS,
governments and NGOs to fight HIV/AIDS.
In more and more countries, laws and policies
are promoting prevention and protecting
people living with HIV/AIDS—and helping
to reduce the shame and stigma long associated
with HIV/AIDS. Medical research is looking
for a vaccine and, with increasing assistance
from pharmaceutical companies, progress has
been made in the development of microbicides
and access to low-cost antiretroviral
drugs. In several countries, prevention
programmes have helped slow the spread of
infection and more care, support and treatment
is available to adults, young people and
children affected by the epidemic. Recently,
at the UNGASS on HIV/AIDS, the unprecedented
level of political commitment has
demonstrated a truly global awareness of
the need for action to fight HIV/AIDS.
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