Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Every year, World AIDS Day commemorated on December 1. This moment is a reminder that HIV-AIDS still one of the main problems health global.
In tackling AIDS, the world has actually made significant progress since the late 1990s. However, to date, AIDS is still a major global health problem.
Like many other health problems, AIDS is also facing various challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic. For this reason, on this commemoration, World AIDS Day 2020 takes the theme ‘Resilience and Impact‘, remind the AIDS community in the world to increase resilience in facing various challenges.
“Today, the resilience that has taken us so far is being tested in new and different ways. Resilience is needed to meet the challenges of the rapidly changing global health landscape, and to withstand uncertainty,” wrote the note. AIDS 2020.
Citing the World Health Organization website (WHO), HIV-AIDS prevention, testing, treatment and care services worldwide are experiencing disruption amid the pandemic. The disruptions are particularly prevalent in countries with fragile health systems.
In fact, any disruption and slowdown in the provision of these services will place many people in vulnerable groups at risk of HIV infection and increase the death from AIDS.
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Illustration. Amid the pandemic, people living with HIV-AIDS (PLWHA) face a number of challenges. (BETWEEN PHOTOS / Abriawan Abhe)- – |
On this occasion, WHO joins partners to pay tribute to all those who work to continue providing HIV services. WHO also calls on country leaders to build global solidarity in order to maintain essential HIV services during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.
“This is a call to focus on vulnerable groups and extend coverage to children and adolescents,” the WHO wrote.
WHO says the world needs to ensure the continued provision of HIV services to groups of children, adolescents and key populations. Key populations include drug users, people who have sex with the same sex, commercial sex workers, transgender people, and groups of prisoners in prisons who are vulnerable to HIV infection.
“We can all contribute to the fight against AIDS and make the world a healthier place,” wrote the WHO.
Until 2019, WHO noted that there were around 38 million people with HIV-AIDS, with around 690 thousand reportedly dying. WHO also recorded 1.7 million new HIV cases in 2019.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded 349,882 people living with HIV-AIDS in 2019. This year, the Ministry of Health recorded 21,220 new HIV cases with 70 percent of them occurring in the productive age group (25-49 years).
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system, which can reduce the body’s ability to fight infection and disease. In the final stages, HIV infection can end with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) which can cause death.
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