The end of AIDS is still possible by 2030, the United Nations insists, but cautions that the world's deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity. At a UNAIDS presentation outlining a roadmap of investment, evidence-based prevention and treatment, empowering civil society and tackling the inequalities holding back progress, Ben Philips, the agency's director of communications, says that countries following the UN's roadmap "are already succeeding". "If other politicians show the political courage to follow that path, then that is how we will see the end of AIDS by 2030," he adds. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES COMPLETE 33NW2QJ