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发帖数: 19713 | 1 A new U.N. report highlights advances in the fight against AIDS along with
concerns.
By Advocate.com Editors
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe x390 (getty) | ADVOCATE.COM
In the past decade new HIV infections have declined by almost 25%, AIDS-
related deaths have decreased, and access to treatment, preventive services,
and care has increased greatly, according to a new report from the United
Nations.
But amid the good news, there are concerns — the improvements are unevenly
distributed around the world, fall short of goals, and could easily reverse,
notes the U.N. Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS.
“We have made tremendous progress in stabilizing or reducing rates of new
infections in nearly 60 countries,” UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe
(pictured) said in the introduction to the report, released Thursday. “But
this success only highlights the rampant stigma and discrimination that
contributes to rising infection rates among key populations at higher risk,
and to the vulnerability of women and girls.”
From 2008 to 2010, the incidence of HIV among gay men rose from 30% to 36%,
and among sex workers it rose from 44% to 50%, the document related.
Also, while antiretroviral drugs have extended the lives of people in
developed countries, people in impoverished nations have limited access to
them. “People in rich countries don’t die from AIDS any more, but those in
poor countries still do — and that’s just not acceptable,” former U.S.
president Bill Clinton wrote in the report.
UNAIDS released the document in advance of Sunday’s 30th anniversary of the
first report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the
disease that would become known as AIDS. | D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 2 "From 2008 to 2010, the incidence of HIV among gay men rose from 30% to 36%,
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发帖数: 703 | 3 At least one HIV patient has been cured. The future looks optimistic. | w*****8
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