Alert on the lack of progress in the fight against AIDS

"The global AIDS response is in a particularly worrisome situation," warned UNOPS executive director

The United Nations (UN) believes that the goals of the fight against AIDS are under threat According to UNAIDS director, Michel Sidibé, "we are giving the light of the alarm," he said, baduring that entire regions were facing setbacks. The results of new infections in children are not sustainable, the means are more limited than those promised by many politicians and large population groups were ignored, said Sidibé in a statement

"The response The World AIDS Day is "In a particularly worrying situation," says Sidibé, who adds in his statement that "the successes, certainly remarkable – albeit still limited – in terms of lives saved and repression of new infections, are now in progress. dangerously open the way to some kind of complacency. "And" this is not the time to lower the guard, complacency threatens to thwart our achievements. "

Since 2010, the number of new infections has decreased by 18 percent to 1.8 million last year. However, this decline has not been fast enough to reach the goal of less than 500,000 new people infected until 2020. The $ 21 billion available in 2017 to fight AIDS and the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) will not suffice Sidibé, who insists that more means will be needed to reach the 2020 goals.

Last year, 36.9 million people around the world were infected with HIV, most of them in Africa, El País reported. 21.7 million patients received antiretroviral therapy, more than ever before. The report of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS), presented a few days before the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, which begins on 23 July, notes that progress is most notable in the

However, in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia, the number of newly infected people has doubled. In the Middle East as in North Africa, more and more people are contracting the AIDS virus. Women are the most affected. And every week, 6,600 young women ages 15 to 24 are infected with HIV for badual badault. In 2017, about 940,000 people died of HIV, the Financial Times reported. Since the beginning of the global epidemic in the mid-1980s, 77.3 million people have been infected and 35.4 million of them have died. According to the United Nations, in 2020, 90% of people affected by HIV will be informed of their infection, of which 90% will be in treatment. In addition, in 90% of them, the virus can no longer be tested in the blood by suppressing the spread of viruses.