UN: 2024 will be a defining year for AIDS to cease to be a threat to public health

2024 and the decisions made by political officials will determine whether or not the world achieves the goal of eliminating AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, as estimated today by the UN AIDS agency (UNAIDS, Onusida in French), which highlights the progress achieved in Africa since 2010. If the 2023 figures show a better situation globally in terms of the number of new infections, the treatment of HIV-positive patients and a reduction in the number of deaths, the UN agency reminds that the pandemic has killed at least 42 million people and that this progress remains fragile. In 2023, just under 40 million people were living with the AIDS virus, HIV, the organization’s annual report reveals. There were about 1.3 million new infections last year, about 100,000 fewer than a year earlier. This is 60% less infections than […]
Source: News Beast

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