The latest UNAIDS report also estimates that new HIV infections have fallen by 35 percent since HIV incidence peaked in 2000.
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UNAIDS officials revealed that the number of people receiving treatment for HIV infection has doubled in the last five years.
“We need to do it just one more time to break the AIDS epidemic and keep it from rebounding”, He added.
Every year around 380 000 adolescent girls and young women become newly infected with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 years account for one in every four new HIV infections.
A report released by UNAIDS – ahead of World AIDS day on December 1st – gives over 50 examples from countries that have adopted the Fast-Track Strategy, which, if adopted by all nations, could end the AIDS epidemic.
Tom Doyle, Chief Executive of Yorkshire MESMAC Group of Services urged as many people as possible to take the test. “It’s never been easier or quicker to take a HIV test and treatments have never been better”.
UNAIDS says that 41% of people who are HIV positive are now being treated, almost double the percentage in 2010.
Deaths related to AIDS have also dropped by as much as 42 percent since incidents peaked in 2004.
“All these gains are linked to improvements in HIV testing and treatment. There are more reasons to know your HIV status than there are not to, so we would encourage local people to use the opportunity of National HIV Testing Week to get tested”.
In a recent study, researchers found that the disulfiram, alcoholism drug, when tested on 30 patients undergoing the antiretroviral therapy led to the emergence of HIV virus.
“…By the end of 2014, 36.9 million people were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, and more than half of them do not have access to treatment”.
The number of new HIV infections this year is likely to be the highest annual total in the last three decades, according to the city’s health authority.
The new UNAIDS report emphasizes that in order to dramatically reduce new HIV infections and deaths due to AIDS, there must be renewed efforts to eliminate stigma and discrimination.
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The CDC is actively promoting awareness through many programs such as High Impact Prevention, the Act Against AIDS Campaign, the Act Against AIDS Leadership Initiative, the Care and Prevention in the United States program, the Male Sex with Male testing initiative, Willow, d-up: Defend Yourself, and Mpowerment.
