MDG 6: Combat HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases
The Goal: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
What Do We Want To Achieve?
◾Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
◾Ensure that by 2010, all people have access to HIV treatment
◾Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases by 2015
What Have We Already Achieved?
◾Since December 2009, more than 1.4 million people have received HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment, the highest number ever achieved in one year
◾Thanks to antiretroviral treatment, 2.5 million deaths have been prevented since 2005 in low and middle-income countries
◾In the past decade, 200,000 deaths from malaria have been prevented each year
◾We have reduced the number of malaria infections by 50% in 43 of the 99 countries where malaria is endemic
◾We have successfully treated 46 million patients with tuberculosis
What Challenges Remain?
◾16.6 million children have lost at least one parent to HIV, most of them live in sub-Saharan Africa
◾HIV remains the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age worldwide
◾Half of the world’s population remains at risk for malaria
◾There is still no vaccine available for malaria, a disease that is responsible for one fifth of all infant mortality