Tag: AIDS

In a recent revelation, UNICEF's Global Snapshot on Children with HIV and AIDS sheds light on the persistent challenges faced by adolescent girls in the battle against HIV. Released just before World AIDS Day, the report unveils startling statistics, indicating that nearly 98,000 adolescent girls aged 10-19 contracted HIV in 2022, translating to a staggering 1,900 new infections each week.

UNAIDS highlights the clear path to ending AIDS by 2030 through strong political leadership, scientific adherence, tackling inequalities, and ensuring sustainable funding. While progress has been made, challenges remain, emphasizing the need for immediate action to achieve this global health goal.

As the world moves to 2023, COVID-19 pandemic remains still a global concern with outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed...

Warning that progress in HIV prevention and treatment has nearly flat lined over the past three years, a UNICEF analysis said that...

More than 40 years after the AIDS epidemic began, HIV-related stigma and discrimination persist with nearly four out of ten people saying that people...

COVID-19 has already worsened the gender inequality and the greater divide was felt in HIV infected people, according to UNAIDS. The report “Prevailing against the...

The world will see an additional 1,23,000 to 2,93,000 additional new HIV infections and 69,000 to 1,48,000 additional AIDS related deaths between 2020 and...

Several countries have shown great progress in reducing HIV infections and AIDS related deaths in contrast to several others where the prevalence is on...

Poor and Middle Income countries will see more deaths from HIV, malaria and tuberculosis with coronavirus pandemic already disrupting the health services in these...

  The UN programme for AIDS has stated that the world will see about five lakh more deaths from AIDS-related illnesses if health services and...