Forthcoming Issue
Save The Planet
As per the United Nations Development Programme, HIV / AIDS epidemic has in two decade infected nearly seventy million people since it began. Some Forty two million are living with HIV and AIDS and over Twenty Five million have died. Without decisive action not only we will fail to achieve the Millennium Developement Goal of reversing the spread of HIV / AIDS, but worse the number of people infected is likely to double in less than a decade. International funding to confront the epidemic has began to grow, but it will take massive, comprehensive and sustained intervention in both high and low prevalence countries to turn the tide
"For there to be any hope of success in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the world must join together in a great global alliance."
- Kofi Annan, Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, June 2001
Early in 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan embarked on a campaign to raise the profile of HIV/AIDS and to spur a large-scale mobilization of political commitment and funding to strengthen the global response to the epidemic.
Kofi Annan
Secretary-General of the United Nations