AIDS Pandemic Nearing Its End- ONE

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According to a leading campaign group fighting HIV, the world has finally reached “the beginning of the end” of the AIDS pandemic that has infected and killed millions in the past 30 years. Punch reports:


The number of people newly infected with HIV over the last year was lower than the number of HIV-positive people who joined those getting access to the medicines they need to take for life to keep AIDS at bay.

But in a report to mark World AIDS Day on December 1, the ONE campaign, an advocacy group working to end poverty and preventable disease in African countries, warned that reaching this milestone did not mean the end of AIDS was around the corner.

“We’ve passed the tipping point in the AIDS fight at the global level, but not all countries are there yet, and the gains made can easily stall or unravel,” Erin Hohlfelder, ONE’s director of global health policy, said.

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