Universal Access ‘A Fantasy’ As Over 50s Remain Excluded From Global AIDS Response

The United Nations will fail to meet its target of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010 if older people continue to be excluded from global responses to the pandemic, charities HelpAge International and Help the Aged warn on World AIDS Day 2008. The UN’s most recent estimates show that some 2.8 million people aged 50 and over are living with HIV, equating to 1 in 14 of the total number infected worldwide.

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Filed under: HIV / AIDS on December 4th, 2008