U.N. News Centre: U.N. launches innovative plan to significantly cut new HIV infections
“Despite a 50 percent drop in AIDS-related deaths since the peak of the epidemic, new HIV infection declines among adults are lagging, prompting the United Nations to launch a 10-point plan that lays out immediate, concrete steps countries can take to accelerate progress. As part of global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat, the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA), and other partners launched on Tuesday the HIV prevention 2020 road map at the first meeting of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition to reduce new HIV infections by 75 percent by 2020…” (10/11).