More than 15m people on life-saving HIV drugs, (new UNAIDS) report says

The Guardian Encouraging news on the HIV/AIDS front. “… The new report from UNAIDS "On the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030: Focus on location and population" shows that the numbers on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) medication have doubled in five years from 7.5 million in 2010 to 15.8 million (with an increase of 2.2 million over the previous year.)

“Every five years we have more than doubled the number of people on life-saving treatment,” said Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAids. “We need to do it just one more time to break the Aids epidemic and keep it from rebounding.” So the U.N. urged countries to ‘break the AIDS epidemic’ by doubling the number of people receiving HIV treatment within the next five years." (Photo © flickr)

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