E-discussion: Addressing challenges for meeting the MDGs and sustaining development gains

In this forum, experts, practitioners and policy-makers from around the world discuss how to address the ongoing and emerging challenges for meeting the MDGs in 2015 and for sustaining development gains in the future. The results of this-e-discussion will provide ECOSOC with constructive inputs and policy recommendations for strengthening efforts towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, particularly the MDGs by 2015, and for sustaining and continuing development gains in the context of the post-2015 development agenda.

The incidence of HIV is declining steadily in most regions; but 2.5 million people are still newly infected each year.

• In 2011, 230,000 fewer children under age 15 were infected with HIV than in 2001.
• Eight million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV at the end of 2011.
• In the decade since 2000, 1.1 million deaths from malaria were averted.
• Treatment for tuberculosis has saved some 20 million lives between 1995 and 2011.

HIV incidence rate (Estimated number of new HIV infections per year per 100 people aged 15-49), 2001 and 2011 Source: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2013