AIDS, "every 2 minutes a contagious teenager"

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Posted: 29/11/2018 12:08

I am almost 700 every day the new ones HIV infections in adolescents between 10 and 19 years old, one every two minutes. This is the image that emerges from the Unicef ​​report, which highlights how "about 360,000 teenagers will die related diseases AIDS between 2018 and 2030. This means that 76 teenagers will die each day if no additional investment is made in HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment programs "warns the document" Children, HIV and AIDS: the world in 2030 ".

The report shows that, on the basis of demographic forecasts and current trends, "the number of new HIV infections between children and young people from 0 to 19 years oldi in 2030 will reach about 270,000 people, with a drop of one third compared to current estimates. The report also shows that the number of children and adolescents who die of AIDS will rise from 119,000 to 56,000 by 2030.

About 1.9 million children and adolescents will be living with HIV in 2030, mainly in Eastern and Southern Africa (1.1 million), followed by Central and West Africa (571,000). ) and Latin America and the Caribbean (84,000) At present, out of the 3 million children and adolescents living with HIV in the world, over the half are in East and South Africa – the paper points out – the decrease in the number of young people aged 0 to 19 living with HIV between 2018 and 2030 will vary from region to region, the strongest South Asia (around 50%) and Eastern and Southern Africa (40%), while the decline will be only 24%, while in Central and West Africa the region with the second highest rate ".