A UNAids report showed that the number people dying from the disease fell from 800,000 in 2017 to 770,000 last year.
There remains a pronounced disparity in new infection rates among young men and women, with young women 60 percent more likely to pick up HIV than young men of the same age.
The report also warned that a lack of political will coupled with decreasing finance risked undermining the progress made so far.
