The scales have tipped in the fight against AIDS, with more than half of people infected with HIV now getting treatment and AIDS-related deaths almost halving since 2005, the United Nations said on Thursday. Eastern and southern Africa are leading the way, reducing new HIV infections by nearly 30 percent since 2010, the report said. Globally in 2016, 19.5 million of the 36.7 million people with HIV had access to treatment, and AIDS-related deaths have fell to 1 million from 1.9 million in 2005. Provided that scale-up continues, this puts the world on track to reach the global target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020, UNAIDS said. Read: Controlling HIV-Aids by 2030 is possible - UnaidsAlso read: Global AIDS deaths falls sharply to 1.5 million in 2013
