COMBAT HIV/AIDS,

MALARIA AND
OTHER DISEASES
◦MDG 6 aims to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria
and other diseases. HIV, malaria and other
diseases have a direct and indirect impact on
rural development, agricultural productivity
and food and nutrition security. At the same
time, food and nutrition insecurity and
malnutrition can increase vulnerability to
disease.
In this regard, Millennium
Development Goal 6 has three targets:
◦To halt by 2015 and have started to reverse the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
◦To achieve global access to treatment for
HIV/AIDS for those who need it by 2010.
◦To have ceased and started reversal of the incidence
of malaria and other major diseases by 2015.
 Target #1: Halt and reversal of the
spread of HIV/AIDS
◦ New HIV infections fell by approximately 40 per cent
between 2000 and 2013.
◦ Globally, an estimated 35 million people were still living
with HIV in 2013.
◦ More than 75 per cent of the new infections in 2013 occurred
in 15 countries.
◦ Worldwide, an estimated 0.8 per cent of adults aged 15 to 49
were living with HIV in 2013.
 Target #2: Universal access to
HIV/AIDS treatment
◦ By June 2014, 13.6 million people living with HIV were receiving
antiretroviral therapy (ART) globally, an increase from 800,000 in
2003.
◦ In 2013 alone, the number of people receiving ART rose by 1.9
million in the developing regions.
◦ ART averted 7.6 million deaths from AIDS between 1995 and 2013.
◦ Antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV were delivered to 12.1 million
people in developing regions in 2014.
 Target #3: Reversal of the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
◦ Between 2000 and 2015, the substantial expansion of malaria interventions led to a
58 per cent decline in malaria mortality rates globally.
◦ Since 2000, over 6.2 million deaths from malaria were averted, primarily in
children under five years of age in Sub-Saharan Africa.
◦ Due to increased funding, more children are sleeping under insecticide-treated bed
nets in sub-Saharan Africa.
◦ Tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment interventions have saved some 37
million lives between 2000 and 2013.
 Some of the achievements of MDG 6
include:
◦ 40 percent reduction in new HIV infections from 3.5 million cases in 2000 to 2.1
million cases in 2013.
◦ A massive increase in the number of people living with HIV receiving anti-retroviral
therapy (ART) globally, from 800,000 in 2003 to 13.6 million in 2014. ART have
helped avoid over 7.6 million deaths from AIDS between 1995 and 2013.
◦ Averting over 6.2 million deaths associated with malaria between 2000 and 2015,
mostly of children under five years in sub-Saharan Africa. The universal malaria
incidence rate has also reduced by an estimated 37 percent, and the mortality rate by
58 percent.
FAO’s programmes to enhance the access of people with
HIV/AIDs to adequate and nutritious diets include home and
community gardening projects, nutrition education and
communication, and local training.

Field projects use a mix of interventions including food

provisions, labour- and time-saving technologies and
microfinance to help support food production and diversification;
and technical assistance to household gardening projects in
HIV/AIDS affected communities.
FAO also supports projects that encourage
more HIV/AIDS orphans and other vulnerable
children to attend school, The FAO Emergency
Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease
(ECTAD) addresses livestock epidemics with
major economic, social and public health
impacts.