'End of AIDS' by 2030 a political choice: UN

"The end of AIDS" is still possible by 2030, the United Nations insisted Thursday, but cautioned that the world's deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity.

The UNAIDS agency said ending the pandemic was, above all, a political and financial choice.  Ben Philips, Director of Communications, UNAIDS said  "The report is highlighting the possibility and it is affirming that is a political and a financial choice. We say that because those countries that follow the path are already succeeding so we know what works.

So if other politicians show, as Sheila called for, the courage, the political courage to follow that path, then that is how we will see the end of AIDS by 2030. So the path that ends AIDS is not to say that we predict that we are on it.

The path that ends AIDS is to say that the path is clear." Winnie Byanyima, Executive director from UNAIDS cited eastern and southern Africa, where new HIV infections have dropped by 57 percent since 2010. Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have already achieved the targets.