Helping communities to end AIDS epidemic

All countries have committed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, which includes the commitment to end the AIDS epidemic as a public health threat. Yet with just 11 years to go, the results have been mixed.

In many countries, great progress continues to be made in expanding access to HIV treatment and prevention options, which in turn are reducing AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections. But there are still far too many countries where AIDS-related deaths and new infections are not decreasing fast enough, even rising in some cases, although we know how to stop the virus.

So why are some countries doing so much better than others? The clue is in the title of UNAIDS' new report, "Communities At the Centre".