UNAIDS has issued a sharp warning about the consequences of one pandemic on another: COVID-19 has significantly disrupted the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Yet that is not the sole reason why we are falling behind in combating the HIV/AIDS crisis - already we were off-track. “The global aggregate of country data reported to UNAIDS shows that the world has invested too few resources, provided too few people with services and failed to bend the curves of new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths as significantly as was envisioned in the UNAIDS Fast-Track Strategy,” a report by UNAIDS notes. This is what UNAIDS calls the “sad truth”, one belied by the “significant progress [that] has been achieved” in combating HIV/AIDS since its zenith in the late 20th century. Put simply, despite the progress we’ve made, we are still failing. “All global targets for 2020 will be missed,” the report warns, four years after a large-scale consensus was achieved at the United Nations of the need … Read Full Article about HIV/AIDS: “The world can do better”
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