Hiv. Unaids report: the risk for homosexuals is 28 times higher

The organization that deals with HIV for the United Nations is alarmist: despite the general decline in cases of transmission, homobaduals continue to have considerably higher chances of contracting the virus.

19 JUL – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Despite the reduction in new infections in Western countries, homobaduals are still 28 times more likely to contract HIV than heterobaduals. This is the alarm launched by the AIDS Miles to Go report from UNAIDS, the UN agency that deals with AIDS. According to the latest update, the total annual number of new HIV infections has dropped from the peak reached in 1996, at 3.4 million, to 1.8 million, registered last year. Yet, homobaduals continue to be at higher risk of contracting HIV with prostitutes, drug addicts and transgender people.

In North America, Western Europe, and Australia, the launch of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis has seen transmission rates fall drastically among homobaduals. As a result of the therapy, for example, new infections in San Francisco have dropped 43% in three years. In New South Wales, Australia, the reduction was 35% in two years. In Britain, however, the adoption of this prophylactic practice has had controversial results.

In 2014, the United Nations pledged to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. According to UNAIDS, last year, they died a million people less than AIDS 13 years ago. In addition, the number of people infected with HIV has decreased by about 100,000 between 2016 and 2017. But a barrier to broader health education is still due to discrimination against badual minorities, which determine, by For example, transgender women are still 13 times more likely to contract HIV than adults aged 15 to 49.

Source: Reuters Health News

(English Version Daily Journal Health / Popular Science)

July 19, 2018
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