HIV infecting 2m more people every year, warns UN
by Sarah Boseley, Guardian:
Talk of the end of Aids was premature, according to a new UN report that reveals the steady decline in new HIV infections stalled five years ago and that, in some areas, the numbers are rising again.
“We are sounding the alarm,” said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAids. “The power of prevention is not being realised. If there is a resurgence in new HIV infections now, the epidemic will become impossible to control. The world needs to take urgent and immediate action.”
Nearly two million people have been newly infected with HIV every year for the last five years, says UNAids, one week before the International Aids Conference in Durban. If that continues, it will be impossible to meet the UN goal of eradicating Aids by 2030.
Even though there are many well-understood ways to prevent infections – including education about the risks, supplying condoms and, most recently, drugs that can protect the partners of those who are infected – the numbers are going up, not down, in many regions.
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