Go Top What is the outcome of the Times of Transition scenario?
There is a dramatic reduction in the number of people infected with HIV and a fundamentally altered future course for Africaand the worldin the twenty-first century. Changes in the delivery of aid, in the rules around trade, in addressing human security, and in national and international governance gradually lead to a more stable world, with benefits for the global North and South. Aid flows to Africa double, are sustained for a generation, and help finance investments in health systems, agriculture, education, electrification, water, roads, social development, and institutional and governance capabilities. Both the prevention and treatment components of the AIDS response are effective enough to reverse the epidemics growth, so that by 2015 the number of adults in need of antiretroviral therapy, for example, starts declining. Provision of antiretroviral therapy expands dramatically. By 2012, almost half the people who need treatment are receiving it. By the end of the scenario, coverag