At UN headquarters in New York, world leaders agreed political declaration to intensify efforts to combat HIV and AIDS.
High-level conference on world response to AIDS will end up at UN headquarters this Friday, with world leaders approved a political declaration to intensify efforts to combat HIV and AIDS.
UN member states are expected to sign the declaration on Friday in the closing conference in New York.
That commitment, among others, get 15 million people living with HIV-positive to anti-retroviral medication by 2015. That's more than double the number of people who now receive life-saving treatment.
On Thursday, world leaders at the conference launched a new initiative to significantly reduce the number of children born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by 2015.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the developed countries have managed to eradicate HIV transmission from mother to child by way of caring for pregnant women. He added, proving transmission from mother to child can be stopped in the developing world.
In 2009, about 370 thousand babies born with HIV. Almost all were born in sub-Saharan Africa. The UN wants to lose 90 percent of that amount in the next four years.
The plan calls for increased access to drug-drug anti-retroviral drugs and other preventive services for mothers and children, integrating health care for women and empowering women to take responsibility for their health and their children.
High-level conference on world response to AIDS will end up at UN headquarters this Friday, with world leaders approved a political declaration to intensify efforts to combat HIV and AIDS.
UN member states are expected to sign the declaration on Friday in the closing conference in New York.
That commitment, among others, get 15 million people living with HIV-positive to anti-retroviral medication by 2015. That's more than double the number of people who now receive life-saving treatment.
On Thursday, world leaders at the conference launched a new initiative to significantly reduce the number of children born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, by 2015.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the developed countries have managed to eradicate HIV transmission from mother to child by way of caring for pregnant women. He added, proving transmission from mother to child can be stopped in the developing world.
In 2009, about 370 thousand babies born with HIV. Almost all were born in sub-Saharan Africa. The UN wants to lose 90 percent of that amount in the next four years.
The plan calls for increased access to drug-drug anti-retroviral drugs and other preventive services for mothers and children, integrating health care for women and empowering women to take responsibility for their health and their children.
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