In Brazil, Senegal, Thailand, Uganda, and now in parts of Tanzania, where HIV rates among young women have been cut by more than half as a result of strong prevention programmes. Prevention does work. The evidence has never been clearer. And, today, we have more options than ever. Millions are being sold, and used.
Women have more choice.
Countries are now turning these findings into action. Communities are beginning to set their own standards of care and mobilising the political will to achieve them. But together with this news of progress, there is news so devastating that few in this room could have predicted or imagined it a decade ago. In Asia, a doubling of infections has occurred in almost every country. In several countries in Eastern Europe, the increase has been six-fold and more.