The spread of AIDS could disappear altogether in 15 years, according to WHO

The document, entitled 'The public health sector response to HIV. 2000-2015 ' highlights the great progress made ​​since 2000 in the fight against viruses and recalls that the number of HIV carriers undergoing treatment has grown exponentially over the past five decades.

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"Nearly 16 million people (worldwide) received HIV treatment in mid-2015, more than eleven million of them in Africa, where only 11,000 people were receiving treatment in 2000," says WHO.
The document, which was presented in the framework of the Conference on AIDS in Africa (ICASA), which began Monday in Harare, adding that the number of deaths caused by HIV has fallen by 42 percent since 2004 - when two million people died because of AIDS-until 2014, when the number of deaths fell to 1.2 million people.
According to WHO, these advances in the fight against the virus have been saved since 2000 some 7.8 million African lives and is part of the world where most infections have been reduced.
The improvements since the start of the century are attributed to several factors by WHO, stressing the importance of national programs to prevent the spread of the virus.

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"Although suffered most HIV epidemic in the world, many countries in Africa exceeded their serious economic problems to provide public responses to virus strong enough," says the report.
Among the measures taken by governments, WHO cites treatments to prevent transmission of the virus from mother to child, as well as more recent methods including voluntary male circumcision, a surgical procedure that reduces the risk of infection is counted men.
Despite the optimism of the message, the WHO warns of the great challenges that the international community faces in the next five years, a period that shall extend care to HIV carriers and step up measures to combat large-scale .
"If this acceleration does not occur, the number of people infected by the virus is likely to grow again and treatment costs continue to increase in the future," concludes the report.
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