The uptick in treatment use has decreased AIDS-related deaths by 45 percent to 1.1 million last year, down from 2 million in 2005. With HIV-positive individuals living longer, UNAIDS said it now faces challenges of preventing the disease from spreading and limiting infections.
The U.N. aims to have 30 million HIV-positive individuals on treatment by 2020.
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