By 2015, the UN managed to provide treatment to 15 million people infected with HIV, which gives reason to hope for a complete victory over the global HIV epidemic by 2030, as UN Deputy Secretary General Michel Sidibé told reporters on the sidelines of the V International Conference on HIV / AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, which ended yesterday in Moscow.
According to Mr. Sidibé, until the mid-2000s, the situation with the incidence of HIV was simply catastrophic: hospitals were overcrowded with patients, and the percentage of deaths from AIDS simply went off scale. But by 2015, the UN was able to successfully implement a number of provisions of the program to counter the spread of HIV and provide treatment for 15 million people diagnosed with HIV.
The absence of new facts of HIV infection, zero mortality and the maximum tolerance of society towards infected people are prerequisites for a successful fight against the human immunodeficiency virus, Sidibé said. If in the coming years the UN manages to achieve the implementation of all these criteria, by 2030 it will be possible to state the final victory over the HIV epidemic, the UN Deputy Secretary General emphasized.
Anna Gidenko