"UNICEF" warns of the daily deaths of dozens of AIDS teenagers by 2030

To expandGENEVA: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the deaths of 76 teenagers a day from AIDS in different countries of the world, unless programs to treat and prevent the teenagers are not lying.

"The number of new people infected with the disease, from 0 to 19, will reach 270,000 by 2030, confirming that the world is still a long way from being the right way to eradicate AIDS at home. children and adolescents, "said UNICEF.

"AIDS: The world in 2030," said the United Nations Children's Fund in a report.

According to the report, accessed through Anatolia, about 76 adolescents or teens would die every day by 2030 if no other investment was planned in the programs currently available for AIDS prevention and medical diagnosis lesions and treatment programs.

UNICEF estimates that nearly 700 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 are infected with HIV every day, or one in two minutes.

According to the report, new infections among children under 10 will halve by 2030, but will only decrease by 29% among adolescents aged 10 to 19 years.

The report also notes "worrying shortcomings in the AIDS response, including that many children and young people do not know if they have the disease and that, moreover, those who have been found to be HIV – positive do not have the disease". treat only a few ".

To address these shortcomings, the report recommends a number of UNICEF-supported approaches, such as the establishment of family-centered diagnostic centers, to help detect children at an early stage and to provide more diagnostic technologies in the health care phase to improve the early diagnosis of infants.

The report also recommends the need to increase the use of digital platforms and social networks to increase adolescents' knowledge about AIDS.