The World Health Organisation (WHO) published on 11 May 2004 The world health report 2004 - changing history, which describes the global propagation of HIV/AIDS and the need for linking and strengthening prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with the virus.
The report says that "it is treatment that can most effectively boost prevention efforts and in turn drive the strengthening of health systems and enable poor countries to protect people from a wide range of health threats".
"Coordinated efforts now to control this global epidemics, could change the course of history".
WHO highlights that it "is a critical moment in the history of HIV/AIDS. There is more money, more political will and more attention being paid to this killer disease than ever before.
And yet, more people than ever are dying of AIDS and becoming infected with HIV.
By using HIV treatment programs to strengthen existing prevention programs and improve health systems, the international community has a unique opportunity to change the course of history, says the report.
