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This is one of the key messages from UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibé, in presenting his annual report, in which he warns against "complacency" for achievements in the fight against AIDS, which translates to "We will not be able to overcome this epidemic if one in three women continues to be the victim of physical or sexual violence," said Sidibé.
In sub-Saharan Africa – home to 25.7 out of 36.9 million people living with the AIDS virus – women account for three-fifths of new infections, he said.
These figures are particularly revealing It is known that in southern and eastern Africa (53% of people infected with HIV) between 2010 and 2017, new infections have been reduced by 30% and 42% those with been killed by the disease.
of the world, the decrease in infections during this period was 18% and 5.3% in 2017 alone, with 1.8 million people last year, compared to 3.4 million at the top recorded in 1996.
As for the number of deaths, it decreased by 5% last year to 940 000, or 51% less than the maximum recorded in 2004.
The main reason is the extension of coverage of antiretroviral therapy, in late last year, they received 21.7 million people, five and a half times more than ten years ago.
"Nobody would have thought a few years ago" that these figures could be reached, stresses Sidibé, who at the same time has attracted attention because "we are partly victims of these results "First, because there is" a decline in investment ".
Last year, international AIDS funds grew by 8% for poor countries, with $ 20,600 million, but that means it was 80% of the time. target set by the UN General Assembly for 2020 in 2016, with the intention that the pandemic ceases to be a threat to health in 2030.
"We will not not at the same pace as we were assigned, "warned Sidibé, who said an additional $ 7 billion is needed to increase the number of infected people receiving treatment and reach 30 million in 2020.
He noted that 44 countries most affected by the pandemic depend on a 95% of foreign aid to treat people infected with the virus
UNAIDS warned that, in the face of optimistic trends confirmed at the worldwide, this model of improvement does not occur in Africa North, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Central Asia
There are the majority of the fifty countries where infections are progressing, like Russia, the third country in the world for new infections, behind the 39, South Africa and Nigeria.
regions where major groups at risk (such as homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals, injecting drug users or sex workers) are clearly stigmatized.
Sidibé recalled that 70 countries have homophobic laws. In the Middle East, addressing sex "is very complicated" and that in Eastern Europe or Central Asia, there is no political will to address this problem and groups in risk are abandoned.
In general, the probability of being infected HIV (AIDS virus) among homosexual men is 28 times higher than among heterosexuals, that of injecting drug users is 22 times higher and that of prostitutes , 13 times higher.
47% of new infected people in the world are components of these groups or their partners. EFE
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