Around the world, 34 million people are infected by HIV/AIDS, and that same number of people have already died from the virus.
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Over the past 15 years, the world has made strides to reverse the pandemic, but experts warn of a multibillion-dollar annual funding gap in the fight to eliminate the disease.
“This report has been a culmination of more than two years of efforts to try to get all available data to help us understand the picture of the epidemic facing them”. Abigail Boyer is 28 years old and living with HIV. It’s the largest single-site provider for HIV clinical care in Wisconsin.
Despite these achievements, low- and middle-income countries continue to carry the burden of new infections and gaps in access to treatment. This will trigger an impactful response which can end the HIV epidemic by 2030. The new targets propose that by 2020, 90 per cent of all people living with HIV (PLHIV) should know their HIV status, 90 per cent of people who know their HIV-positive status should be receiving sustained ART and 90 per cent of people on ART should achieve sustained viral suppression.
“If we were all tested then we could really identify who is living with HIV and who isn’t and we could get people into care”, HIV Services Supervisor, Kelly Kibirige said. Hohlfelder says a greater collective political will is necessary to provide the billions of dollars required to treat those who can’t afford it.
“We need to work better with mobile app providers to share information about HIV and protect the health of adolescents”, Cheng told The Guardian.
“We’re often labeled as alcoholics – we have more homeless rates in a lot of the provinces and stuff like that, so it’s more profound”, she said.
Health24 reported that Aids has become the leading cause of death among African teens. It’s important, Hohlfelder stresses, that these governments are held accountable by their constituents.
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The most costly part of de Blasio’s plan is the expansion of HASA benefits (“HASA For All”) to those who have HIV but are not symptomatic; the plan cites studies that have shown that stable housing could reduce cases of AIDS by allowing those who are HIV positive to keep a stable treatment regimen.
