Warren said the problem right now is that people are lost each step of the way.

Other priorities include scaling-up the use of new non-surgical male circumcision devices and safeguarding prevention research funding, especially for the National Institutes of Health or NIH. Warren says “the future of prevention innovation is more precarious than it should be.”

“Everything is on the potential chopping block if the U.S. Congress in the next six weeks does not come to an agreement around what’s called “the fiscal cliff”. And there would be across-the-board cuts, including up to an eight percent cut across NIH. And NIH has really been the lifeblood of HIV prevention and treatment research in the world. NIH provides sometimes up to 75 percent of the research funding,” he said.

He added if quicker action is not taken now, the next generation will ask: Why did you say it was possible to end the epidemic and then fail to act?