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PARIS, France (AFP) – Major advances in the prevention of AIDS and new infections are likely to be halted, if not canceled, if funding and priorities continue to decline, warned the UN today
. UNAIDS warned that a creeping "complacency" was threatening these successes.
"We give the alert," said agency executive director, Michel Sidibe, during the unveiling of "Whole Regions Are Trolling Down," the tremendous progress we've made for children are not supported … the resources still do not match political commitments, "he added. The report showed that the number of people living with the virus attacking the immune system rose from 36.3 million in 2016 to 36.9 million last year thanks to the expansion of access antiretroviral therapy (ART). [19659003] There were 1.8 million new HIV infections, up from 1.9 million in 2016 and 3.4 million at the height of the epidemic in 1996.
The number of deaths dropped by 50,000 per year at 940,000, compared to 1.9 million in 2005, while only 2.1 million infected people had access to antiretroviral therapy.
Last year, the number of treated patients jumped to 21.7 million – three out of five carriers of the virus, according to UNAIDS.
15.2 million people still without treatment.
"We are not going at the pace we set ourselves," Sidibe told reporters. "We wanted 30 million people to be on treatment in 2020".
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