The fight against AIDS is "at an uncertain stage" – World

The fight against the AIDS epidemic in the world is stagnating because of the retaliation that took place after the progress and the successes do not correspond to what is needed, reported the world news agency , citing a UN report

The report of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS) indicates that the fight against the epidemic is in a "phase of uncertainty" . Although deaths are decreasing and being treated more, the number of new infections can disrupt the pace of efforts to conquer the disease.

"Promises made to the most vulnerable are not respected, and there is still a long way to go before the end of the AIDS epidemic, time is running out," he writes in the report

Michelle Sidibe, Executive Director of the United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), noted in the report's preface that great progress has been made in reducing the number of deaths from AIDS and a record number of people on antiretrovirals .

"Crisis points", however, are in the prevention of the spread of infection among high-risk and vulnerable people, as well as in the provision of permanent funding.

Gay men are 28 times more likely to be infected with HIV than heterobadual men. Transbadual women are 13 times more likely to be infected with HIV by people aged 15 to 49 years.

Due to better access to treatment, AIDS deaths have decreased by 34% from 2010 to 2017. Last year, their number is the lowest of this century – less than 39, one million.

Recently, there have been new cases of HIV-infected patients. The number of people infected with HIV has decreased by about 100,000 between 2016 and 2017, and in the previous 12 months the level has remained static

In 2017, the number of people living with HIV was of 36.9 million and 366 million in 2016.

Last year, 940,000 people died of AIDS in the world. For comparison, at the height of the 2005 epidemic, deaths were 1.9 million, with only 2 million HIV carriers accessing treatment.

The worst is access to treatment in West Africa .