Coverage of Selected Services for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care, and Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2005

The Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS adopted by the United Nations General Assembly Special
Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001 commits member states and the global community to taking strong and immediate action to address the HIV/AIDS crisis. It calls for achieving a number of specific goals, including reducing HIV prevalence among young men and women, expanding care and support, and protecting human rights. The Millennium Development Goals adopted at the Millennium Summit in September 2000 call for expanded efforts to halt and reverse the spread of HIV by 2015. 

Progress toward achieving these goals requires significantly expanding HIV/AIDS programs to foster a supportive environment, to prevent new infections, to care for those already infected, and to mitigate the social and economic consequences of the epidemic. One measure of progress is the percentage of people living in low- and middle-income countries who have access to key prevention, treatment, care, and support services. This report presents the results of an assessment of the coverage of several key services for the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS in 2005.