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Approximately 360,000 adolescents will die of AIDS or a related disease between 2018 and 203 0 if no progress has been made in research, prevention and treatment, representing 76 deaths a day, warned Unicef.
New infections of the population aged 0 to 19, based on current projections and trends, are estimated at 270,000 in 2030, a decrease of one-third from the current according to the report "Children, HIV and AIDS: The World to 2030", published two days before World AIDS Day.
The number of deaths of children and adolescents due to AIDS or related diseases will also decrease from the current number of 119,000 to 56,000 in 2030, a year set by the United States. UN to eradicate the disease.
But by summing up these accumulated deaths, data show that nearly 80 teenagers will die on average each day until this year.
"The report clearly states, without reading the world is wrong when it comes to ending AIDS in children and adolescents by 2030 ", said the Executive Director of the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore.
"Programs to treat the virus and prevent its spread among other children are far from what they should be," Fore said.
About 700 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 are infected daily. with the AIDS virus (HIV).
And, in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the number of new infections in children during its first decade of existence should be reduced by half and 29% among the population aged 10 to 19 years.
Currently, 3 million children and adolescents live with HIV in the world, and more than half of them are in South Africa and from the East.
According to Unicef, the disease response in children has two major drawbacks: slow progress in preventing HIV in children and the inability to cope with the epidemic factor , which makes many children and adolescents do not know if they are HIV-positive and very few follow the treatment when they know it.
The report recommends to increase HIV testing in children, but does not know their serologic status, more diagnostic technologies or a community commitment to reach adolescents .
"We can not win the battle against HIV unless we accelerate progress in preventing transmission to the next generation," Fore warned.
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