{"id":3808,"date":"2019-07-17T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T07:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"aids-deaths-down-a-third-since-2010-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/17\/aids-deaths-down-a-third-since-2010-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Aids Deaths Down A Third Since 2010: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HIV-related\ndeaths last year fell to around 770,000 — some 33 percent lower than in 2010\n— the United Nations said Tuesday, but warned that global efforts to eradicate\nthe disease were stalling as funding dries up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An estimated\n37.9 million people now live with HIV — a record 23.3 million of those have\naccess to some antiretroviral therapy (ART), UNAids said in its annual report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlighting\nthe enormous progress made since the height of the Aids epidemic in the\nmid-1990s, the report showed that the number people dying from the disease fell\nfrom 800,000 in 2017 to 770,000 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The figure was\ndown by more than a third from 2010, when there were 1.2 million Aids-related\ndeaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it also\nexposed weaknesses in the world’s fight against Aids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nAids-related deaths in Africa, the continent most affected by the epidemic,\nhave plummeted this decade, Eastern Europe has seen the death toll rise 5\npercent and the Middle East and North Africa 9 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year-on-year,\nthose same regions saw a 29-percent and 10-percent rise in new infections,\nrespectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We\nurgently need increased political leadership to end Aids,” said Gunilla\nCarlsson, UNAids executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ending\nAids is possible if we focus on people not diseases… and take a human\nrights-based approach to reaching people most affected by HIV.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decades of\nresearch have yet to yield a cure or vaccine for the Human Immunodeficiency\nVirus (HIV), which has infected almost 80 million people and killed more than\n35 million since the early 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN said\nthat more than half of new HIV infections globally come from “key populations”\n— intravenous drug users, gay men, transgender people, sex workers and\nprisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this,\nthe report said that under 50 percent of these at-risk populations were reached\nby HIV prevention services in more than half of countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another vulnerable\ngroup is children, with more than 160,000 new HIV infections last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is 41\npercent lower than in 2010, but far off the mark countries set themselves of no\nmore than 40,000 new cases worldwide each year by 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There remains a\npronounced disparity in new infection rates among young men and women, with\nyoung women 60 percent more likely to pick up HIV than young men of the same\nage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also\nwarned that a lack of political will coupled with decreasing finance risked\nundermining the progress made so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year $19\nbillion (17 billion euros) was made available for Aids response, more than $7\nbillion short of the estimated $26.2 billion needed by 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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