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The UN Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) has called for increased funding for the early treatment of people with HIV.The head of the agency, Michael Sidibe, said a new study showed it could reduce the risk of HIV transmission by 96%.
He said the challenge was to expand access to drugs, and deal with social factors which stigmatise the disease.
On Thursday, a UN report said there had been a nearly 25% decline in new HIV infections and a reduction in Aids-related deaths during the past decade.
It was published ahead of the 30th anniversary on Sunday of the first official report on Aids by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The General Assembly is to meet at UN headquarters to discuss the epidemic next week, with 20 world leaders and more than 100 ministers expected to attend.
An estimated 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010 and nearly 30 million have died from Aids-related causes since 1981, the report said.
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