AIDS 2010

Understanding factors and mechanisms, cellular pathways, viral features and immune interaction of mucosal HIV transmission should provide important insight to design prevention methods to interrupt transmission.

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force in international law in 2008.

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To date responses to the epidemic have been largely individualistic, bypassing families.

According to the latest data, significant progress has been made in delivering prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services in low- and middle-income countries.

Of the 33.2 million people living with HIV a third are estimated to also be infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

The past decade has shown that providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) makes clinical, social and economic sense. ART is bending all epidemiological curves, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality, and recent research now shows that treatment also reduces HIV incidence. Despite this evidence, donors are shifting their focus away from AIDS just as efforts should be ramped up.

Where Europe and Central Asia are in terms of HIV prevention, treatment and political commitment?

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The Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria was created in 2002 when the world realized it was failing to respond adequately to the AIDS epidemic, TB and malaria.