AIDS has been deteriorating our lives since 1981 and thus it has become really crucial that we start putting in our best efforts to eradicate this illness from its roots, which was first diagnosed on June 5, 1981 in the United States.

An important step in the same direction has been led by the UN General Assembly, who on Friday has accepted an ambitious declaration, which aims at treating 15 million HIV-infected people with anti-retroviral drugs and efficiently eliminating mother-to-child transmissions of the virus, by 2015.

UN General Assembly is 192-nation’s assembly and the adoption of the 17-page declaration by this assembly has majorly advanced the global fight against the AIDS epidemic, which till now has claimed lives of approx 30 million people. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the declaration and has also called on member states to quickly start honoring their commitments in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Though many preventive measures are available to stop mother-to-child transmissions of the illness but despite the presence of the measures, the killer disease has affected an estimated 370,000 infants, who were born infected with HIV in 2009.

Joseph Deiss, UN General Assembly President, said, "In this declaration, member states have committed to clear targets to ensure that by 2015 no children are anymore born with HIV; close the global resource gap for AIDS and work towards increasing funding to between 22 and 24 billion (dollars USD) by 2015; increase universal access to antiretroviral therapy to get 15 million people onto life saving treatment by 2015, reduce TB deaths in people living with HIV by 50 percent."