Aids Leaders Raise Alarm On the Danger of Millions of Preventable Deaths: Africa
Global AIDS leaders have joined forces in issuing a strong warning that derailing of progress to end AIDS is putting millions of people in danger. They came together to launch UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022, ahead of the opening of the 24th International AIDS Conference currently taking place in Montreal, 29 July to 2 August.
"There has, without a doubt, been backsliding in the HIV response amid the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr Fauci."Testing and hence HIV diagnoses decreased in many countries including in my own country, harm reduction services to people who use drugs and other vulnerable people have been widely disrupted. Reduced access to TB diagnoses and treatment resulted in an increase in TB deaths among people living with HIV from 2019 to 2020.
Stating that thousands of younger women, like herself, are mobilizing and organizing to push back against regressive attitudes and policies and confront the damages inflicted by the pandemic, but also warning that they cannot do it alone."As young women fighting for our futures, we call on all of you to step up and ensure the HIV response urgently recognizes the dangers that younger women and key populations face - always - but more acutely after the COVID pandemic," she said.
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