{"id":11715,"date":"2020-12-02T11:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T08:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11715"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:21","slug":"africa-children-left-behind-in-the-treatment-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/12\/02\/africa-children-left-behind-in-the-treatment-of-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Children left behind in the treatment of HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The world marks World Aids Day on December 1, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unicef&#8217;s latest survey report shows that every minute and 40 seconds that passed last year, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly 320,000 children and adolescents were infected with HIV and 110,000 children died of Aids-related illnesses last year, most of them in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though the number of Aids-related deaths among children aged 0-19 has fallen by 53 percent since 2000, deaths in young children under five still accounted for the majority, at 60 per cent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report states that paediatric prevention and treatment through antiretroviral therapy still lags behind in both treatment coverage for prevention of mother-to-child transmission, at 85 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It adds that the conditions of adults living with HIV (62 per cent) in 2019 was made worse by Covid-19 disruptions. Last year, only 53 per cent of children living with HIV had access to life-saving treatment. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202012010712.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world marks World Aids Day on December 1, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unicef&#8217;s latest survey report shows that every minute and 40 seconds that passed last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}