| ■ World leaders adopt new targets to combat HIV | 2011.06.10 |
| World leaders on Friday declared HIV "an unprecedented human catastrophe" and adopted new targets to combat the epidemic, including providing drug treatment to 15 million people by 2015, A political declaration hammered out after seven weeks of difficult negotiations was adopted by consensus by the U.N. General Assembly at the end of a three-day high-level meeting to spotlight successes in tackling HIV/AIDS and the need to intensify the fight. It commits the U.N.'s 192 member states to cut in half the transmission of HIV through sexual activity and injecting drugs by 2015 — and to ensure that all babies are born HIV-free by that date. |