Publisher's Synopsis
This flagship report presents the considered views on the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). It also presents evidence of the responses to the epidemic mounted by many partners, including governments, the business sector and civil society.;The report provides positive proof that HIV, if left to run its natural course, will cause devastation on an unprecedented scale. One by one, dangerous myths of complacency are being shattered.