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The Bangkok Post
The Bangkok Post
Last year, world leaders came together at the United Nations in New York and agreed on a groundbreaking Political Declaration on HIV and Aids. That plan takes on the inequalities that drive the pandemic and will dramatically reduce new HIV infections and Aids-related deaths by 2025 and end the Aids pandemic as a global health threat by 2030 — if world leaders fulfil it. But the world — especially the Asia and Pacific region — is not on track. Data just released in the new Unaids report, “In Danger: Unaids Global Aids Update 2022”, reveals that the world is not on course to end Aids by 2030. Th…