UNAIDS Report Cites Progress in Prevention and Treatment
274 views · Published 30 July 2008 · 2:46 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · Nonprofits & Activism
A new United Nations report on the global AIDS epidemic finds that HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts rose steeply in the last few years, and the number of AIDS-related deaths is declining. Yet the UNAIDS report also found that for every two people newly on treatment last year, five others were newly infected. Carolyn Weaver reports from the U.N. in New York.