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  • Biggest obstacle is human behaviour

    As Elton John’s band played on during the latest International Aids Society conference in July in Washington, President Barack Obama kept his distance, hosting a select political gathering a short distance away in the White House.

    November 29, 2012
    Financial Times

  • Adult circumcision drive to fight AIDS faces resistance

    Ambitious plans to curtail the spread of AIDS by promoting male circumcision have fallen far short of organizers’ hopes, particularly in Africa.

    November 29, 2012
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    Washington Times

  • CDC: US AIDS epidemic fresh in risk-taking youth

    AIDS is alive and well in a new generation of teenagers and young adults, most of them young men, who are having risky sex, often fueled by drugs or alcohol, US officials said Tuesday.

    November 27, 2012
    NBC News

  • New report outlines strategy for HIV/AIDS

    The AIDS advocacy group AVAC says 2013 will be a critical year for ending the epidemic. The group has released its annual report that calls for an ambitious pace of funding, implementation and research.

    November 27, 2012
    Voice of America

  • Let's step up the pace

    With this year’s AVAC report—Achieving the End: One Year and Counting—we’re setting the clock on the global drive to end the AIDS epidemic.

    November 27, 2012
    POZ

  • AIDS response paying off but more needs to be done

    A new report on the global AIDS epidemic shows a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries over the last 10 years.

    November 21, 2012
    Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

  • New HIV cases falling in some poor nations, but treatment still lags

    New infections with HIV have dropped by half in the past decade in 25 poor and middle-income countries, many of them in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS, the United Nations said Tuesday.

    November 20, 2012
    New York Times

  • Risky sexual behaviour threatens to derail AIDS progress, UN report says

    Risky sexual behaviour is continuing around the globe and even increasing in some countries, threatening to derail efforts to stop or slow transmission of the HIV virus and end the AIDS epidemic, according to an authoritative UN report.

    November 20, 2012
    Guardian

  • Quicker progress seen in HIV/AIDS fight

    Progress in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic is "quickening," according to the United Nations agency charged with the battle.

    November 20, 2012
    MedPage Today

  • Despite progress, HIV efforts fall short

    Record progress in reducing the number of new HIV infections and lowering the numbers of people dying from AIDS-related causes indicate that the end of AIDS is "entirely feasible". But the epidemic is not over in any part of the world, and is gaining pace in some.

    November 20, 2012
    IRIN

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