MDG: 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases
In 2009, an estimated 2.6 million people were newly infected with HIV. This represents a drop of 21 per cent since 1997.
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 mararia is endemic