World has missed all targets for tackling Aids by 2020, UN report reveals The first Aids case was reported forty years ago this Saturday, and despite progress made, it remains one of the world's deadliest pandemics 3 June 2021 • 6:03pm The Aids pandemic remains 'unfinished business', the UNAids executive director, Winnie Byanyima, said Credit: Andrej Cukic/Shutterstock The world has missed all of the targets for tackling Aids by 2020 and "time is running out" to end the disease in the next ten years, according to a new United Nations report. Despite some major achievements, including cutting deaths by 43 per cent in the last decade and infections by 30 per cent, progress has been patchy and in some regions – such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia – new HIV infections are actually on the rise.