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About 360,000 adolescents will die of AIDS or related diseases by 2030 if research, prevention and treatment do not progress, accounting for 76 deaths a day, UNICEF warned Thursday.
The number of new infections in the population under the age of 19, according to current projections and trends, is estimated at 270,000 by 2030, a fall of one – third from the previous year. according to the report "Children, HIV and AIDS". : The World in 2030 ", published two days before World AIDS Day.
The number of deaths of children and adolescents due to AIDS or related diseases will also increase from the current number of 119,000 to 56,000 in 2030, a year set by the UN to eradicate the disease. But, in addition to the accumulated deaths, the data show that nearly 80 adolescents a day will die on average by 2030.
"The report of course indicates that the world is wrong when it comes to ending AIDS among children and adolescents by 2030," said Henrietta Fore, executive director of the Children's Fund. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
"Programs to treat the virus and prevent its spread to other children are far from what they should be," she added. About 700 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 are infected daily with the AIDS virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus – HIV).
According to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, by 2030, the number of new infections among children in their first decade of life is expected to be halved and 29 per cent among 10-19 year olds. Currently, 3 million children and adolescents live with HIV worldwide and more than half in southern and eastern Africa.
According to UNICEF, the fight against the disease in children presents two major failures: the slow progress in HIV prevention and the failure to fight the epidemic, which prevents many children and adolescents from knowing if they are seropositive and when few follow the treatment.
The report also recommends an increase in the number of tests to diagnose children who are HIV-positive, but who do not know their status, more diagnostic technologies and a community-based approach to reach adolescents. "We can not win the battle against HIV if we do not accelerate progress in preventing transmission to the next generation," Fore said.
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