No time to lose

Original article can be found here http://www.avert.org/aids-its-not-over.htm In recent years, there has been some wishful thinking about the end of AIDS. It is true that we must be very ambitious in our goal to stop AIDS, and thanks to a sustained global effort over two decades, we have succeeded in stabilizing the pandemic, treating millions around the world – more than 8 million people in low- and middle-income countries now receive antiretroviral therapy. However, rumours of the demise of AIDS are greatly exaggerated. Today, well over 30 million people are living with HIV globally, and nearly twice as many people are newly infected with HIV as are put on ART every year. With 2.7 million new infections and …

This talk by Dr.Peter Piot is taken from the 21st Century Challenge event ‘Global Heath in the 21st Century — exploring whether societies can strike a balance between combating the dangers of viral outbreaks and pandemics, while maintaining the hopes of eradicating established diseases, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS, which continue to claim millions of lives each year? This video is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. Original video available here