Africa: Children Left Behind in the Treatment of HIV

The world marks World Aids Day on December 1, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unicef'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.

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.

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