Global HIV/AIDS Policy in Transition

Resource constraints and peaking of the epidemic should lead to a rebalancing of health assistance for developing countries. In 2007, the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) concluded that “Global HIV incidence likely peaked in the late 1990s” ( 1 ), due to “natural trends in the epi...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 328; no. 5984; pp. 1359 - 1360
Main Authors Bongaarts, John, Over, Mead
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published American Association for the Advancement of Science 11.06.2010
Subjects
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AIDS
Arts
Death
Developed countries
Developing countries
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Funding
HIV
Infections
POLICY FORUM
Trends
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis vaccine
United Nations
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Summary:Resource constraints and peaking of the epidemic should lead to a rebalancing of health assistance for developing countries. In 2007, the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) concluded that “Global HIV incidence likely peaked in the late 1990s” ( 1 ), due to “natural trends in the epidemic as well as the result of prevention programmes” ( 1 ). The slow decline in new infections together with a recent rise in antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) halted the rise in the estimated number of AIDS deaths at about 2.2 million per year—equivalent to 4% of all global deaths ( 2 ). Among adults 15 to 49, the proportion currently infected with HIV (HIV prevalence) plateaued at just under 1% before declining to 0.8% worldwide ( 1 , 3 ). These trends raise the question of how global health funding should be rebalanced between AIDS treatment and HIV prevention, as well as other health-care investments.
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1191804