AIDS status & challenges of the epidemic

1. Introduction: global targets on HIV/AIDS

The source document for this Digest states:

Country progress towards 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS global targets (low and middle-income countries)

In the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, adopted at an historic special session of the UN General Assembly in 2001, leaders from 189 Member States committed to comprehensive, time-bound targets for the delivery of the effective HIV prevention, treatment, care and support needed to halt and begin to reverse the global epidemic by 2015.

Source & ©: UNAIDS  Report on the global AIDS epidemic: Executive summary, (2006), p.3

For more information on this question, see:
 Chapter 01 Introduction, p.2,
of the full 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic  by UNAIDS