"It has taken the world ten years to achieve this level of momentum," says Gottfried Hirnschall, Director of WHO’s HIV Department. "There is now a very real possibility of getting ahead of the epidemic. But this can only be achieved by both sustaining and accelerating this momentum over the next decade and beyond." Advances in HIV science and programme innovations over the past year add hope for future progress. In times of economic austerity it will be essential to rapidly apply new (…)