AIDS in 2015, by the numbers

Local media reported that a number of official buildings would be lit up in red to mark World AIDS Day, including Congress.

HIV continues to be a major global public health problem, having claimed more than 34 million lives since the start of the epidemic.

Smith is one of 1,000 people in the Southern Tier who’s been infected with the HIV virus.

Globally there are an estimated 34 million people who have the virus.

Minister Haufiku commended the new World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on providing treatment to anyone who tests HIV positive regardless of their CD4 count and using treatment as prevention to vulnerable populations as a positive development in ending HIV infections.

The White House statement said the U.S. has made “significant progress” over the last five years in the fight against the illness, through the country’s first comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which was released in 2010 and updated in July by the Obama administration. The fact that new infections have declined by 66% from 2000 and 2015, and AIDS-related deaths fallen by 54% from 2007 to 2015, is a concrete proof that India has delivered on its global commitment in achieving MDG-6. In 2014 alone, two million people became newly infected and 1.2 million died from AIDS.

The Department of Health ranks Louisiana second in the nation for HIV case rates.

It noted that people living with HIV in Africa were now more likely to receive treatment than people living in most other parts of the world. “So we always try to identify positives so that we can provide the care they need”, Alt told News 3. He said that ART is also highly effective in preventing sexual, parental and vertical transmission of HIV.

When Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, he was deep into his second term in the late 1980s before he said the word “AIDS” even though so many lives had been lost to the disease.

The activities have targeted at prevention, care, treatment, impact mitigation, health system strengthening and research.

The health fair featured an HIV/AIDS exhibition which was complemented by the distribution of literature on HIV/AIDS and condoms for both men and women.