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UN: Global AIDS epidemic can be controlled by 2030

The United Nations said on Wednesday new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it "in every region, in every country".

"More than ever before, there is hope that ending AIDS is possible. However, a business-as-usual approach or simply sustaining the AIDS response at its current pace cannot end the epidemic," the U.N. AIDS programme UNAIDS said in a global report issued ahead of an AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia next week.

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