South African actress Charlize Theron is playing on her notoriety to promote a very ambitious UNAIDS plan. Its objective is none other than to stem the epidemic by 2030.
With 6 million people living with HIV, South Africa is still the country most affected by the AIDS epidemic today. South African actress Charlize Theron has therefore decided to use her notoriety to fight against this scourge which killed 1.5 million people worldwide in 2013 (-12% compared to the previous year). She thus presented in Los Angeles a very ambitious plan of theUNAIDS, the United Nations Disease Agency. Its objective is to try to contain the epidemic by 2030, which would prevent 21 million deaths.
A slogan: “90-90-90”
On this occasion, the model therefore spoke at a press conference: “When young people have access” to treatment and means of prevention against HIV “and receive education on the disease, they do good choices for their future, ”she said.
“We have changed the trajectory of the epidemic,” explains Michel Sidibé, general manager of Onusida. “We now have five years ahead of us to contain it for good or see the epidemic pick up again and get out of control,” he adds.
In its plan, the Organization sets targets to be achieved by 2020: 90% of people infected with HIV must know, 90% of those living with HIV must undergo treatment, and 90% of those treated must see their burden. virus suppressed (undetectable). She calls these goals “90-90-90”.
And by 2030, the UN goal is to reach the “95-95-95” target, which would prevent nearly 28 million new cases of HIV.
40 million deaths in 33 years
As a reminder, since 1981, some 78 million people have been infected with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the disease of AIDS. Nearly 40 million people have died from AIDS, this UN report recalls.
In 2013, there were approximately 35 million people living with HIV in the world, 71% of them living in South-Saharan Africa.
In France, 150,000 people were infected with the virus in 2013.
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