United Nations： China will become a country that completely cuts off mother-to-child transmission of AIDS.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, March 18 (Reporter Nie Xiaoyang, Shi Jianguo) Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS, said on the 18th that China is one of the best countries in the world in the prevention and treatment of AIDS at present, and it is expected to be the next country to completely cut off mother-to-child transmission of AIDS in the near future.

　　On the same day, Sidibe signed a new memorandum of strategic cooperation with Cai Mingzhao, president of Xinhua News Agency. The two sides promised to strengthen cooperation in social media and other fields and make joint contributions to the fight against AIDS.

　　Sidibe said that the commitment of China leaders to AIDS prevention and treatment and the achievements made by China are obvious to all, especially in innovative prevention and treatment, and China plays a very important role. He believes that China will be the most important partner of UNAIDS in the next 15 years, and will make greater contributions to eventually stopping the spread of AIDS around the world.

　　He said that China currently runs the world’s largest intervention program for methadone addicts. In the past few years, the infection rate of AIDS among intravenous drug users in China has dropped by 90%.

　　Cai Mingzhao said that UNAIDS was one of the earliest UN agencies to carry out strategic cooperation with Xinhua News Agency. Since the signing of the first memorandum of strategic cooperation between the two sides in 2011, the two sides have carried out fruitful cooperation, and this time new cooperation content has been added. I believe that the two sides will take the opportunity of signing the new memorandum of cooperation to make their own contributions to the goal of ending AIDS in 2030.

　　Cai Mingzhao said, as the national news agency of China, Xinhua is willing to give full play to its all-media advantages, enrich cooperation content and innovate cooperation methods, and make greater contributions to human health and dignity together with UNAIDS.

　　According to the latest report issued by the Geneva-based UNAIDS, since the prevention and control of AIDS was put forward in the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2000, 30 million new HIV infected people have been avoided in the world, and the number of AIDS-related deaths has decreased by nearly 8 million. If this trend continues, mankind will hopefully achieve the goal of ending AIDS by 2030.