Australia Should Steer Global HIV Prevention Revolution

Australia Should Steer Global HIV Prevention RevolutionThe universal brawl against HIV/AIDS is crossing extremities. Various promising scientific evidence are constantly being unveiled for dramatically reversing the rate of the HIV outbreak, in order to save millions of people from getting trapped by the deadly infections, ailments and deaths.

But still, despite all the efforts being made to safeguard people from the perilous HIV/AIDS, there is complacency and weariness, even after 30 years since the scourge and related global economic crisis started exerting immense pressure on general budgets all over the world, thereby threatening grants necessary for reversing the persistent spread of HIV.

Mind-numbing statistics reveal the gigantic extent of HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the work which is still needed to be done in order to combat the grave-inspiring infection. As per statistics, in excess of 30 million lives have been lost due the disease; nearly 33 million people are living with HIV positive status; and over 7000 infections are confirmed every day, with the majority of patients being young adults.

Of late, the United Nations has nodded in favour of a courageous novel statement to clash AIDS, wherein Australia offered the biggest support in acquiring approval from all UN Member States. A pride and joy of the “UN Declaration” is intrepid HIV prevention objectives for the international community to accomplish by 2015.