Latest UNAIDS Data Paint A Grim Picture Of The Pandemic…
By Shobha Shukla
A new report, “In Danger”, launched by UNAIDS just ahead of the 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022) in Montreal, Canada, paints a grim picture of the global HIV epidemic. It reveals that during the last two years, progress in prevention and treatment of HIV has slowed down and resources have shrunk, putting millions of lives at risk.
As per the report, there were 650,000 AIDS related deaths in
2021, despite there being effective HIV treatment and tools to prevent,
diagnose and treat opportunistic infections.
Also 1.5 million new infections occurred in 2021– over 1 million more than the 2025 global targets. This amounts to the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016 – a drop of only 3.6% between 2020 and 2021.
