Some 360,000 adolescents will die of diseases AIDS related between 2018 and 2030, according to current forecasts. “This means that 76 adolescents will die of AIDS every day if we do not invest more in HIV prevention, testing and treatment programs.”, indicates Unicef in a new report.
According to this report, by 2030, the number of new HIV infections in children during their first ten years will be halved, while the number of new infections in adolescents aged 10 to 19 will fall by only 29%.
“Certainly, the trend is downward, but it remains too slow” insists Unicef. “The report is very clear and leaves no shadow of a doubt that the world is on the wrong track to eliminate AIDS in children and adolescents” adds Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of Unicef. The latter estimates that nearly 700 adolescents aged 10 to 19 are infected with HIV every day, which is a new infected teenager every two minutes.
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