How much progress has been made on Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases. What is the current status of malria and HIV/AIDS in the world?

1. Malaria and HIV/AIDS

2. Millennium Development Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases TARGET Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

6. Progress? spread of HIV appears to have peaked in 1996, when 3.5 million people were newly infected. 72% of all new HIV infections in 2008 in Sub-Saharan Africa. Epidemic stabilized in most regions. Rising in Eastern Europe, Central Asia.

7. Progress? HIV remains the world’s leading infectious killer AIDS-related mortality peaked in 2004, with 2.2 million deaths. 33.4 million people were living with HIV in 2008, 22.4 million in sub-Saharan Africa.

10. Some deadly rumors In South Africa and Namibia, where AIDS rates are among the highest, some people believe sex with a virgin will cure HIV/AIDS. Only Homosexuals contract AIDS (China, South Asia, Middle East) AIDS doesn’t exist in our country ‘a foreign disease’

14. From 2005-2008 access to treatment increased 10 fold- from 400,000 to 4 million