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Untitled Introduction Untitled Stronger commitment Untitled Beyond complacency - (a)
Untitled Prompt, focused prevention
(b)Untitled Reclaiming the future - (a)
Untitled Devastating cycles
(b)Untitled Development and stability threatened Untitled Coping with crisis
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History was made when the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001 set in place a framework for national and international accountability in the struggle against the epidemic. Each government pledged to pursue a series of many benchmark targets relating to prevention, care, support and treatment, impact alleviation, and children orphaned and made vulnerable by
- To reduce
Untitled HIV infection among 15‚24-year-olds by 25% in the most affected countries by 2005 and, globally, by 2010; - By 2005, to reduce the proportion of infants infected with
Untitled HIV by 20%, and by 50% by 2010; - By 2003, to develop national strategies to strengthen health-care systems and address factors affecting the provision of
Untitled HIV -related drugs, including affordability and pricing. Also, to urgently make every effort to provide the highest attainable standard of Untitled treatment forUntitled HIV/AIDS , including antiretroviral therapy in a careful and monitored manner to reduce the risk of developing resistance; - By 2003, to develop and, by 2005, implement national strategies to provide a supportive environment for orphans and children infected and affected by
Untitled HIV/AIDS ; - By 2003, to have in place strategies that begin to address the factors that make individuals particularly vulnerable to
Untitled HIV infection, including under-development, economic insecurity, poverty, lack of empowerment of women, lack of education, social exclusion, illiteracy, discrimination, lack of information and/or commodities for self-protection, and all types of sexual exploitation of women, girls and boys; - By 2003, to develop multisectoral strategies to address the impact of the
Untitled HIV/AIDS epidemic at the individual, family, community and national levels.
Increasingly, other stakeholders, including nongovernmental organizations and private companies worldwide, are making clear their determination to boost those efforts. - By 2005, to reduce the proportion of infants infected with
New resources are being marshalled to lift spending to the necessary levels, which
More private companies are also stepping up their efforts. Guiding some of their interventions is a new international code of conduct on
The challenge now is to build on the new-found commitment and convert it into sustained action -- both in the countries and regions already hard hit, and in those where the epidemic began later but is gathering steam.
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Untitled Introduction Untitled Stronger commitment Untitled Beyond complacency - (a)
Untitled Prompt, focused prevention
(b)Untitled Reclaiming the future - (a)
Untitled Devastating cycles
(b)Untitled Development and stability threatened Untitled Coping with crisis
The excerpted text and figures integrated herein were mainly from the:
- 2004
Report on the global AIDS epidemic (July 2004)
© UNAIDS/WHO
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization (WHO) - US Bureau of Census: HIV/AIDS Surveillance
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention