Deaths caused by AIDS to drop to 600,000 by 2023 Photo: Steve Allen / Alamy / Profimedia
Infections with the HIV virus, the cause of AIDS, will reach the lowest level in history in 2023, UNAIDS, the UN agency responsible for fighting the disease, announced on Tuesday, although this decline still considered far too slow, tells AFP, taken. by Agerpres.
“In 2023, fewer people contracted HIV than at any time since the late 1980s,” the height of the AIDS epidemic, the group summarized in its annual report. According to the group, between million and 1.7 million people will be infected with HIV in 2023.
This virus, in the last stage of the disease, causes AIDS, and at that time the patient’s life is in danger of many fair diseases that his body no longer knows how to protect itself.
Deaths from AIDS — just over 600,000, according to the agency’s estimates — hit their lowest point since their peak some 20 years ago.
Despite this favorable move, the group, which proposed to almost completely eliminate epilepsy by 2030believes that these advances are far too slow.
Globally, about ten million patients with the disease do not benefit from antiretroviral treatment, a treatment that has been granted to allow a large number of people to live with the disease.
And while the latest arrival of preventative treatments – known as PrEP – has accelerated progress against the disease, implementation is “still very slow” where infections are most prevalent. quickly, the group pointed out.
“Only 15% of people who needed PrEP were receiving it in 2023,” UNAIDS estimates, noting, among other things, that anti-LGBT laws, such as Uganda’s, ‘ discourage high-risk people from seeking these treatments.
2024-11-26 15:34:00
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