UNAIDS says 2,300 people are infected with HIV each year in the Dominican Republic

Onusida País director Bethania Betances noted that 36.9 million people in the world are living with HIV and that 58% of these patients already have access to antiretroviral drugs; however, 1.8 million people are infected each year, so the incidence is still high

. This was indicated during the presentation of the UN Joint HIV Team HIV 2018-1919, coordinated by UNAIDS, with the aim of supporting the national response to the disease. in response to international AIDS commitments to make treatment accessible to everyone who suffers from it.

With ARVs, AIDS has become a problem Previously, the average life expectancy of a person living with HIV was 8 years.

Now, with timely treatment and medical examinations, this life expectancy is almost the average of a person. without the virus, that is, "we are talking about an effective response and a manageable disease."

AIDS is a multifactorial problem and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) allow for a much more comprehensive approach In this way, the strategic objectives guiding the Joint HIV Plan aim to intensify combined prevention actions for the most vulnerable populations. exposed and prioritized, such as bad workers, Haitian migrants, homobaduals, youth and women. It also aims to reduce new HIV infections, eliminate new infections in babies and maintain the health and well-being of their mothers, improve the access of people living with HIV to medical tests and to diagnose It also aims to eliminate punitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses, end gender, badual and domestic violence to mitigate risk and impact HIV, intensify actions. so that the answer is funded in its entirety and implemented effectively on the basis of strategic information For its part, the UN resident coordinator in the country, Lorenzo Jiménez de Luis, is referred to the report "Promoting the fight against AIDS for UN reform and global health".

The paper says that with the expansion of treatment coverage, there has been a 34% reduction in AIDS-related deaths between 2010 and 2017, and that during this past year less than 39 million people died of the disease, he said.

Luis Jiménez estimated that "progress is much slower than what is necessary to achieve the 2020 goal of having less than 500,000 new infections worldwide, so we must step up efforts in prevention, especially in populations at increased risk of infection. "

The HIV Joint Team is made up of 11 agencies, programs and funds, including the World Health Organization. Pan American Health (WHO / PAHO), UNICEF, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP). EFE