Assignment
For this assignment, Be sure that you are familiar with the nature and magnitude of the HIV epidemic over time, where progress is being made and where it is not being made, and some of the key challenges going forward. This can best be found in the annual UNAIDS Epidemic Update.
You have been asked to report on the world's progress in controlling HIV. Your report must involve either a proposal that the efforts have been inadequate overall and that it remains a major threat to global health, or that the work addressing HIV on a global scale has been largely successful. It is your choice, but make a compelling case based on the evidence you have found.
In preparing your case on world HIV, you should include:
1. What has happened to incidence over time?
2. What has happened to prevalence over time?
3. How successful or not have efforts been at prevention in different settings?
4. How successful have efforts been at putting people and keeping them on treatment?
5. What have been the trends in global expenditure on AIDS?
6. What are the remaining challenges in addressing AIDS?
7. Are we on the right trajectory to meet those challenges?