In 2006, world leaders made a historic commitment to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, care, support and treatment by 2010. But many countries face significant barriers to achieving this global mandate – barriers that are associated with the social, economic and political issues that increase people’s vulnerability to HIV and exacerbate the impact of AIDS. One way to address these barriers – and to achieve the scale and breadth of response required for universal access – is mai more...

Last year, Camille Liu's future was looking good. He had met a woman, they fell in love and decided to move to his home country, Mauritius, and marry. But when Anna arrived on the tropical Indian Ocean island to accept her fiancé's proposal, bureaucratic issues stood in the way - one of them was an HIV test.

Read how a couple's love changed a nation.