2024 is a decisive year to achieve the goal of ending the risk to public health from AIDS: United Nations

Data from 2023 show a global improvement in the number of new infections, treatment of HIV-infected patients and a decrease in the number of deaths. However, UNAIDS has warned that such progress is fragile .

According to a new UN report, about 40 million people are suffering from the HIV virus.

Compared to 2022, about 1.3 million new infections were added last year, but in 1995, 3.3 million people were newly infected. This was the highest number of new AIDS infections. Later this number has gradually decreased significantly.

But looking at the long-term trend, it seems that reaching the goal taken for control is still far away. UNAIDS is far from the target of reducing the number of new infections to 330,000 for next year .

It is mentioned in the report that the number of deaths due to AIDS in 2022 was 670,000, but it dropped to 630,000 last year.

Access to antiretroviral drugs is a major issue for control . Expanding access to antiretroviral drugs to around 34 million patients worldwide by 2025 is yet to be achieved. 370,000 people seem to have access to antiretroviral drugs, which is far from the target.

However, in 2010 this reach was limited to only 7.7 million .

Eastern and Southern Africa are the most affected regions, with 20.8 HIV-infected people per thousand. Last year, an additional 450,000 people were infected and 260,000 died.

The head of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanima, said that the world is not on the right track towards achieving the 2030 goals.

'Inequalities fueling the HIV epidemic are not being adequately addressed,' Banima reports said .

'One person dies every minute from AIDS-related causes,' she said.

Stigma, discrimination and sometimes criminalization affect certain groups and result in very high rates of infection because people are unwilling or unable to seek help and treatment without risk .

In East and Southern Africa, AIDS prevalence is 0.8 percent among people aged 15 to 49 years, 1.3 percent among prisoners, and 2.3 percent among women and adolescents aged 15 to 24 years.

Sex workers, people who inject drugs, homosexuals and men who have sex with men, and transgender people have higher rates of infection. According to

statistics, three percent of sex workers, five percent of people who inject drugs, 7.7 percent of gay men and men who have sex with men, and 9.2 percent of transgender people are infected worldwide.

"In some countries in sub-Saharan Africa, new infections have fallen by more than half since 2010," Banima said. .'

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, only half of those infected with HIV receive treatment, while in the Middle East and North Africa, this figure is 49 percent .