STOP HIV

The United Nations said in a new report that a major expansion of access to treatment has reduced the number of AIDS deaths in 2010, the number of people living with HIV in a record 34 million.
Speaking to reporters in Berlin on Monday Michel Sidibé, UNAIDS Executive Director, declared progress in treatment was a “game-changer.”

The STOP HIV-Stick To One Partner campaign is a simple and practical campaign that speaks to all sexually active individuals to stick to one partner.

STOP HIV-Stick To One Partner comes from the fact that particularly in South Africa; our epidemic is driven by multiple concurrency partners where it is the norm to have more than one sexual relation at the same time. We still have a growing epidemic and itΓÇÖs evident we see households disappearing, we see young people dying.

UNAIDS statistics (as of July 2008), based on the reporting of 147 out of 192 UN member states, show that:

Two million people died from AIDS in 2007 (5,500 people per day), and 72 percent of these deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa.
Over 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 67 percent of these infected people [...]

Introduction

In spite of strides that have been made to combat it, HIV still poses a great threat to the South African nation as well as the rest of the sub Saharan region. Currently the highest prevalence rates of HIV and AIDS are within the 25 – 49 year age group predominantly caused by multiple [...]