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This is a cold figure: a teenager aged 15 to 19 is infected every three minutes with HIV according to Unicef. The organization has alerted this Wednesday, July 25, 2018, a "public health crisis forgotten."
A teenager aged 15 to 19 is infected every three minutes with HIV, said Wednesday Unicef. The United Nations Children's Fund took advantage of the International AIDS Conference, which is currently being held in Amsterdam, to warn of a "crisis" of forgotten public health. Girls are the victims of two-thirds of the world's infections in this age group, according to data presented at the conference.
A More Vulnerable Population
" In most countries, women and girls do not have access to the necessary information and services or do not even have the opportunity to refuse unprotected bad "UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta said in a statement Fore. " HIV is spreading rapidly among the most vulnerable and marginalized, putting adolescent girls at the heart of the crisis ," she added.
In 2017, 130,000 dead people under the age of 20 have been linked to AIDS and 430,000 new HIV infections have affected this age group. Among teenagers aged 15 to 19, the number of deaths has stagnated, while in other age groups it has been falling since 2010.
Unicef denounces forced relations and early reports
Unicef denounced in a report " early badual intercourse, including with older men, forced relationships, the power struggle that does not allow to say no, poverty, and lack of access to confidential counseling and testing "
In Amsterdam, South African actress Charlize Theron denounced the" inferior status given to women and girls in the world ". The director of operations of Unitaid (international organization for drug aid), Robert Matiru, interviewed by AFP, for his part believes that: " As long as we will not reach the young and will not curb the epidemic among them (…), we will not achieve our goals "
According to the International AIDS Society (IAS), four out of ten African teenagers have already experienced physical violence or badual intercourse on the part of a man in their intimacy. This NGO denounces the absence of a policy of prevention against this violence or protection for the youth in many countries.
It also works to sensitize adolescents. "Young people have grown up, they are incredibly mobile, they are moving, they have forgotten that HIV is a risk, and we must, we can not stop pbading on this message ," he said. AFP President, Linda-Gail Bekker
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