UNICEF warns against the prevalence of AIDS among minors

According to a report of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the rate of HIV / AIDS infection in the world in 2017 was about 30 people per hour. The vast majority

The report adds that of these 30 injuries, which occur every hour in adolescents aged 15 to 19, the number of girls is about 20, or two-thirds of the number

. Fighting AIDS Over the past two decades, the inability to prevent the injuries of so many children and adolescents

The prevalence of HIV / AIDS among young women has increased due to their early sexual intercourse with some older men, as well as forced labor due to poverty, lack of special counseling services and medical examinations. "In most countries, women and girls lack information, services or even ability to reject unprotected sex," said Henrietta Fur, executive director of UNICEF. A UNICEF report, which was presented Wednesday at an AIDS conference in Amster According to the Netherlands, 130,000 children under the age of 19 lost their lives because of AIDS. 39 last year, while 430,000 new cases were reported, with an average of 50 cases per hour.

Adolescents aged 10 to 19 About two-thirds of HIV-positive people under the age of 19, three million. While the number of AIDS-related deaths in all other age groups has declined since 2010, deaths among 15-19-year-olds are not decreasing.

UNAIDS says that the fighting has been "dangerous" and that despite the number of deaths has decreased and treatment rates have increased, and new rates of infection are high. 37 million people around the world carry the HIV virus.