President Jacob Zuma congratulates South Africans on South Africa's HIV treatment progress
15 July 2015
President Jacob Zuma has welcomed the report by Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, or UNAIDS on the significant progress that South Africa has made in the fight against HIV/Aids epidemic as part of its programme of meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 (see here – PDF).
The President congratulates all South Africans for their role in the dramatic achievements in the country's fight against HIV and AIDS.
The UNAIDS announced on Tuesday, 14 July 2015, in a report "How Aids Has Changed Everything - Meeting the MDG Targets”, that the world has met and exceeded the AIDS targets of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6 and was on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The organisation further declared that the goal of 15 million people on life-saving HIV treatment by 2015 has been met and exceeded nine months ahead of schedule.