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Africa: Global HIV target set in 2020 not met-UNAIDS report

 


A report from the UN HIV/AIDS Program (UNAIDS) reveals that the world’s HIV goals set in 2020 will not be achieved, especially due to very unequal progress in expanding access to antiretroviral therapy. It was

A recently released report, Seizing the Moment, states that the deeply successful AIDS pandemic is not shared equally within or between countries.

He also said the Covid-19 pandemic could run at risk of HIV progression.

UNAIDS Executive Secretary Winnie Byanima says in the report that their progress in ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 has not already taken off before the outbreak of COVID-19. Covid-19 could add to the course’s blast, he added.

“Modeling done on behalf of UNAIDS and the World Health Organization suggests that a six-month mess of medicines could result in an additional 500,000 AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone by the end of 2021. I showed it,” she said.

The executive prevention director said the HIV prevention crisis must be addressed by empowering people everywhere to health and removing the barriers that prevent them from receiving the services they need.

Byanyima said it is not permissible to reverse the hard profits gained from responding to HIV. She further stated that out of the 38 million living with HIV, 25.4 million are currently receiving treatment.

“That means 12.6 million people are still waiting. New HIV infections have declined 23% since 2010, thanks to a significant 38% reduction in eastern and southern Africa. In Europe, HIV infections increased by 72% to 22% in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and 21% in Latin America.”

Globally, there were still 69 million AIDS-related deaths and 1.7 million new infections in 2019.

Byanyima says the 2020 target of reducing AIDS-related deaths to less than 500,000 and new HIV infections to less than 500,000 will not be met.

She said that gender-based violence and inequality continued to cause the HIV epidemic, and that young women and adolescent girls remained in sub-Saharan Africa, even though it made up about 10% of the total population. He said it accounted for a quarter of new infections in 2019.

The report estimates that over the past 12 months, 243 million women and girls (ages 15-49) worldwide have been exposed to sexual or physical violence by intimate partners. ..