2023-11-30 08:00:00
10:00 AM Thursday, November 30, 2023
The United Nations set a goal to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Since then, significant progress has been made toward this goal and the number of new AIDS infections and deaths from it has declined significantly.
According to the Medical Express website, the United Nations AIDS Agency, in its annual report on World AIDS Day, noted that community-led responses are not recognized, suffer from a lack of resources, and are under attack in some places.
She added: “The message of this report is one of active hope. Although the world is not currently on track to eliminate AIDS as a public health threat, it can be on track.”
The United Nations set for the first time in 2015 the goal of eliminating AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
There are 39 million people around the world infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Among them are 20.8 million in eastern and southern Africa and 6.5 million in Asia and the Pacific.
But out of 39 million people, 9.2 million do not have access to life-saving treatment.
Support gap
The agency said that the programs provided by front-line community organizations need full support from governments and donors to end the AIDS pandemic.
About $20.8 billion was available for HIV programs in low- and middle-income countries in 2022, far short of the $29.3 billion needed by 2025.
Annual treatment costs have fallen from $25,000 per person in 1995 to less than $70 in many of the countries most affected by HIV today.
The report revealed that funding directed across communities decreased from 31% in 2012 to 20% in 2021.
“Communities are not in the way: they are leading the way towards eliminating AIDS,” said Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of UNAIDS, UNAIDS.
The agency noted that crackdowns on marginalized groups are hindering frontline communities from providing HIV prevention and treatment services, while a lack of funding makes them struggle to operate and prevents them from expanding.
1.3 million new infections
There were 1.3 million new HIV infections worldwide last year, a decline from the peak of 3.2 million in 1995.
In 2022, 86% of all people living with HIV knew they were infected with the virus. 89% of them were receiving treatment. Of these, the virus was suppressed by 93%.
UNAIDS said that 53% of all people living with HIV are women and girls.
Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe have already achieved the so-called 95-95-95 targets in combating the epidemic, which means that 95% of people infected with HIV know their status, and 95% of those who know they are infected with HIV receive life-saving antiretroviral therapy. For life, 95% of people who receive treatment to achieve viral suppression are unlikely to infect others.
The report said that 630,000 people died from AIDS-related diseases last year.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, 85.6 million people have been infected with HIV and 40.4 million people have died from AIDS-related diseases.
World AIDS Day was established in 1988, on December 1 of each year.
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