The expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has resulted in a reduction of AIDS-related deaths, the WHO statement said on the occasion of the World AIDS Day.
At the same time, increasingly effective prevention efforts have reduced numbers of new HIV infections, it underlined.
Since the epidemic’s peak in 2004, the death toll has fallen by 42 percent and 7.8 million lives have been saved over the last 15 years, according to the document.
Besides, the number of new infections has fallen by 35 percent since the turn of the century.
Globally, in June 2015 close to 16 million people out of a total of 37 million people living with HIV were taking ART.
