The activity contributes to reducing sexual transmission of HIV and empowering young people and other citizens with knowledge and skills to protect themselves from new HIV infections.

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UNAids is monitoring progress against targets such as reducing sexual transmission of HIV by 50% by 2015, and providing antiretroviral therapy to all 15 million people who need it.

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The results are the first from a major randomized clinical trial to indicate that treating an HIV-infected individual can reduce the risk of sexual transmission of HIV to an uninfected partner.

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In Asia as in Africa, sexual behavior is the largest mode of transmission, but studies have shown that people in India have fewer sexual partners and fewer partners outside of marriage, and increasingly are delaying sex and marriage.

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Only a small proportion of sexual encounters between couples where one person has HIV result in transmission of the virus, and we have known for more than a decade that antiviral medicines, when given within days of exposure, can prevent infection from taking hold.

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