What is aids2031?
aids2031 is a consortium of partners who have come together to look at what we have learned about the AIDS response as well as consider the implications of the changing world around AIDS in order to chart options for the long term response.
This is not about what we should do in 2031, but what we can do differently now, to change the face of the pandemic in 2031, 50 years after AIDS was first reported.
aids2031 brings together multi–disciplinary teams — including economists, epidemiologists, biomedical, social and political scientists — to question conventional wisdom, stimulate new research, encourage public debate, and uncover new evidence. Learn More
An agenda for the future
The world has been managing the global AIDS epidemic for more than 25 years. While great strides have been made, there are still persisting as well as emerging challenges that must be addressed.
- The number of people living with HIV continues to rise. In 2007, 33 million people in the world were living with HIV, and 2.5 million died from AIDS. This was more than in any previous year.
- For every person who goes on life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, there are 3-4 new HIV infections.
- No one, in any country, has a guaranteed way to insure that AIDS will remain under control. In countries like Thailand and Uganda where much progress had been made, we are now seeing higher rates of infection.
- We cannot grow over-confident in our knowledge of what works. We simply need to learn more about which behavioural and societal approaches are needed in order to change the future course of AIDS.
Latest updates
March 11 declared aids2031 Day in San Francisco
Apr 1, 2008
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