Unicef: 360,000 teenagers will die of AIDS in 2030

If you do not invest more in the HIV prevention, We think that 360,000 teenagers they will die for the AIDS in 2030, according to the report published Thursday, November 29, 2018 by the United Nations Fund for Children, Unicef.

These numbers show that the world is "very" far from reaching its goal of ending the AIDS among the miners in 2030, said the executive director of Unicef, Henrietta Fore.

Forecasts show that the number of children and adolescents infected with the virus will decrease human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and deaths related to this virus that causes the AIDS.

However, Unicef warns that progress is significantly lower among adolescents, which the UN identifies between 10 and 19 years. For example, AIDS-related deaths are thought to be reduced by 57 percent in children under 14 by 2030, compared to 35 percent of 15- to 19-year-olds.

"Programs to prevent HIV transmission mothers to children give their results, but they are not enough, while programs for the treatment of the virus and prevention spread among older children, they are not near what they should be, "Fore said.

The report accuses slow progress by preventing HIV among the miners, with a failure to treat structurally, as well as the behavior of AIDS carriers. For example, many young people do not know that they are HIV-positive and others do not know about treatment.

Unicef is driving diagnostic technologies and more family-based testing centers, as well as more ambitious programs, as well as increased use of digital platforms to improve adolescents' knowledge of HIV.

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