High risk of ‘losing control’ of AIDS epidemic: experts.

Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are widely used to treat HIV, but UNAIDS warned that rates of AIDS deaths and new infections are not low enough, and that prevention efforts need to be stepped up (AFP Photo/SIA KAMBOU)

The AIDS epidemic risks resurging and spiralling out of control unless billions of extra dollars are pumped into prevention and treatment, experts warned Sunday on the eve of a major world conference.

An alarming rate of new infections, coupled with an exploding population of young people in hard-hit countries, meant the world could be steering for “a crisis of epic proportions,”…