Summary
Twenty-five years into the epidemic, more than 40 million people worldwide are thought to live with HIV infection. The epidemic continues to grow and its devastating impact keeps increasing, primarily in developing and emerging countries where unprecedented international mobilization and major progress remains insufficient compared with the scale of the threats. Kazatchkine discusses the actions required in health systems, capacity building, delivery of prevention and care, trade, and ensuring sustainable funding for the world's ability to cope with the continuously changing complexity of the AIDS crisis.
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Living with Aids
AIDS now kills 8,500 people every day, including 1,600 children. If preventive and therapeutic treatment do not increase dramatically in size and impact, more than seventy million people are expected to die from AIDS in the next twenty years and more than twenty million children will be orphaned by 2010.
AIDS has contributed to major shifts in approaches to health and development. Because of the magnitude of its human, demographic, economic, societal, and developmental consequences, this medical problem has become a politica...See the full content of this document
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