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01-07-2017 | Editorial
Monitoring the AIDS Response: How Can Lessons from the Pre-2015 Era Inform Monitoring Progress Towards Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030?
Authors:
Peter D. Ghys, Paul Bouey, Raymond Yekeye, Taavi Erkkola, Jude Padayachy, Daniel Low-Beer
Published in:
AIDS and Behavior
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Special Issue 1/2017
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Excerpt
Over the past few decades the world has witnessed the evolution of the HIV epidemic, from the initial reports on AIDS in 1982, through its rapid expansion with devastating global impacts, through the most recent period during which AIDS-related mortality and new infections among children have declined faster than new infections among adults [
1]. At the SDG meeting in September 2015 the global community committed to ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 [
2], and at the High Level Meeting on HIV and AIDS in June 2016 this same community aimed to reduce new infections to less than 500,000 by 2020 [
3]. Modelling analyses underlie these commitments, demonstrating that major reductions in HIV incidence and AIDS-related deaths by 80–90% are possible by 2030 [
4]. The global community has taken a strong commitment to build on the past momentum and realise these goals. …
