UN agency calls for funding boost and political will to end AIDS by 2030

World leaders must redouble their efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, with progress currently stalling because of funding cuts and an increase in “anti-rights” policies in some countries, a United Nations agency has warned.A report1 by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) said that nearly 40 million people were living with HIV in 2023, with one death from AIDS related causes occurring every minute. Globally, almost a quarter of people living with HIV in 2023 (9.3 million) were not getting medical treatment.In 2016 world leaders committed to reduce new annual HIV infections to below 370 000 by 2025 as part of the pledge to end the AIDS pandemic by 2030. But new infections in 2023 were still more than three times higher than this at 1.3 million.UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima said, “The fraying of solidarity between and within countries is putting progress…
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