.MonicaGandhi9 details how this year's status update by UNAIDS on the HIV epidemic worldwide gives cause for concern. MedTwitter
from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS struck a dismal tone. The update, released on July 27, 2022, was appropriately titled"In Danger" because of the setbacks in the HIV response that occurred during COVID-19.Overall, the number of people living with HIV in the world has increased to, which is the highest number of people ever living with HIV recorded. Of those 38.4 million, 36.7 million are adults and 1.
In terms of key populations, defined as sex workers and their clients, gay men and other men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, and transgender people and their sexual partners, 70% of new HIV infections occur in these populations globally .35 times higher among people who inject drugs than among adults who do not inject drugs28 times higher among gay men and other men who have sex with men than among adult menThe statistics are very dramatic for young women.
There have been declines in annual HIV infections in the Caribbean and western and central Africa, the latter driven largely by improvements in Nigeria. These decreases in infections represent accelerating progress. In global figures, however, this progress is being drowned out by a lack of progress in other regions: HIV infections have now increased since 2015 in 38 countries globally.
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