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UNAIDS: ‘Greater urgency’ needed within HIV/AIDS global fight
17.07.2019 15:09 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of this week, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS) has arranged an anti-AIDS event within Eshowe (South Africa), UN Radio reports.
As to the report, within the event, UNAIDS has launched a report saying that the global resources available for the AIDS response have declined «significantly», by nearly US$1 milliard. Reportedly, the gap between the resources needed and those available is widening, as donors provide less funding, and domestic investments grow too slowly to compensate for inflation. As to the report, some US$26.2 miilard is needed by 2020: the 2018 amount available for the AIDS response was approximately US$7.2 milliard short of that figure. As to the report, from 2010 to 2018, the number of new HIV infections declined by 16%, , with around 1.7 million people infected within 2018. The drop is driven mostly by steady progress across most of eastern and southern Africa.
However, the picture looks very different and far less positive within other world regions, which have seen a rising number of cases: thus, within the eastern Europe and central Asia, AIDS-related deaths have risen by 5%, and, within the Middle East and North Africa, by 9% since 2010.
«We urgently need strengthened political leadership to end AIDS. This starts with investing adequately and smartly, and by looking at what’s making some countries so successful. Ending AIDS is possible if we focus on people, not diseases, and take a human rights-based approach to reaching people most affected by HIV,» said Gunilla Carlsson, acting Executive Director of UNAIDS, while commenting on the report .
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