Augusta University providing free HIV testing for World AIDS Day

These include free anonymous HIV testing, HIV prevention education, condoms, access to PrEP and syringe exchange and disposal. But progress stalled around 2010.

The first HIV case was reported in Nepal in 1988.

13,354 people who tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes AIDS are now receiving treatment in Bauchi State. NACO is the nodal organisation for formulation of policy and implementation of programs for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS in India.

Between 2005 and 2014, new HIV diagnoses fell by 19 percent, according to the CDC.

“I think we are at an odd point”, Kates adds.

The comments come after the assembly passed a DUP motion on Tuesday which expressed concern at “the levels of stigma experienced by people living with HIV” and said a need awareness campaign was needed. “It is more hard for them to accept than for people over 50”, she explained.

And the future looks grim. HIV spreads through sexual contact, unsafe blood transfusion or by sharing needles. Confronted with the enormity of the global epidemic, we did not retreat-we faced the challenge head-on, in a bipartisan fashion.

But that may be hard.

The Minister said some people know that they are living with HIV and Aids but do not make a report and as such are not in the system. That funding fell past year and could be cut further under a new presidential administration.

While “MSM represent approximately 2% of the USA population”, CDC noted, “in 2013, MSM accounted for 67% of all new HIV diagnoses”.

And it could be argued that HIV/AIDS prevention measures have gotten through to numerous people who are most receptive to those messages.

“We still have a major treatment gap”, Gottfried Hirnschall, head of WHO’s HIV department, told reporters in Geneva, warning that “many people actually get to treatment late because they don’t know they are HIV positive”.

One of the ambassadors, 17-year-old Nana Akosua Adjei, said: “There’s a lot of ignorance and risk taking amongst young people about contracting a sexually transmitted disease”.