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10 Jan 2006
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 Halting and reversing the spread of AIDS by 2015 demands far greater access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support than is currently available. Ultimately, it requires universal access to a comprehensive range of services. UNAIDS and its partners are working with countries to reach the goal of universal access for all those who need it by 2010.
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Reaching the Millennium Development Goal on HIV/AIDS – to halt and reverse the spread of the epidemic by 2015 – requires far greater access to HIV prevention services and AIDS treatment, care and support than is currently available. Ultimately, it calls for universal access to a comprehensive range of services.
At the September 2005 World Summit, the UN General Assembly called for the development and implementation of a package for HIV prevention, treatment and care with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010 for all those who need it. This built upon a similar commitment made in July 2005 by the leaders of the G8 group of industrialized nations, who called on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the World Health Organization and other international bodies to support countries and play a key role in efforts to achieve universal access.
Based on the above, UNAIDS is facilitating a multi-partner effort driven by the countries themselves, to scale up towards universal access. The process aims to identify solutions to the key obstacles that are blocking universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support services, and to develop nationally agreed, targeted plans or 'roadmaps' for building significantly more comprehensive AIDS programmes by 2010.
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http://www.unaids.org/en/in+focus/topic+areas/universal+access.a
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