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Africa: HIV Remains a Leading Killer in Africa Despite Medical Breakthroughs - How to Eliminate It
The Conversation Africa, 8 January 2023
About 38 million people around the world are living with HIV. About 70% of them live in Africa. This shows that there is no solution to the AIDS pandemic without a solution in… Read more »
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Africa Renewal, 1 December 2021
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has issued a stark warning that if leaders fail to tackle inequalities the world could face 7.7 million* AIDS-related deaths… Read more »
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Africa: Aids Leaders Raise Alarm On the Danger of Millions of Preventable Deaths
UNAIDS, 30 July 2022
At the launch of UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022 global AIDS leaders united in a call to prevent millions of new HIV infections and millions of AIDS-related deaths. Read more »
HIV/Aids is Africa's Leading Killer Despite Medical Breakthroughs
About 38 million people around the world are living with HIV. About 70% of them live in Africa. In 2021, there were 1.5 million new cases of HIV - just over 4,000 cases per day around the world. At the same time, close to 700,000 people died. In 2016, countries came together at the United Nations to agree on ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Scientist Professor Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) points out three things the health sector needs to do to reach the 2030 goal. Firstly, he said they should appreciate that everyone is mutually interdependent: each person's risk affects the risk faced by others. "Hence, we need solutions that involve everyone working towards a common purpose," Karim said. Secondly, it would be to mobilise the resources to at least get treatment up to the targets set, and thirdly to strengthen the work on prevention.
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The world is not on track to end the Aids pandemic. Inequalities will prevent the world from meeting agreed on global targets on Aids, but a "feminist route map" can get countries ... Read more »
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Unless leaders tackle stark inequalities, the world could face 7.7 million Aids-related deaths over the next 10 years, the Joint UN Programme on HIV and Aids (UNAIDS) warned in Read more »
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Policy makers, global leaders, delegates, researchers, campaigners, activists and people living with the virus are amongst the people gathered at the 22nd International Aids ... Read more »
