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Former US President Bill Clinton on Friday pleaded for the world not to give up in the fight against the AIDS-causing HIV virus, which still kills nearly a million people each year.
" I beg you, (…) it's something we can not let down, "said Clinton on the final day of the 22nd International AIDS Conference, which brought together some 15,000 researchers in Amsterdam. , activists and people infected with HIV
"By a combination of complacency in some places, and open hostility to multinational cooperation efforts in others, there is a serious risk that many people say: + Let's stop doing that, "said Bill Clinton, a longtime activist in the fight against AIDS.
In 2017, the i nfection killed 940,000 and of the 36.9 million people living with the virus, an estimated 15.2 million did not have access to adequate treatment.
"About 35 people will die while I I'm here talking, "said Clinton, pointing out that according to the UN, 1.8 million people were newly infected in 2017 with HIV.
After more than three decades of research, the virus attacking the immune system and causing AIDS remains incurable and unvaccinated. It has infected some 80 million people since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s.
A decrease in intensity in the fight against the disease would have "devastating" consequences and would support "the chances of a return to epidemic proportions with vertiginous negative consequences, "insisted the former US president.
The return of an epidemic could" derail the sanitary conditions and ruin the economic and social objectives of a good number of countries, leaving behind a devastated landscape, "he continued.
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