Post by shahadat560 on Jan 18, 2024 5:10:26 GMT -6
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, can be eradicated in 15 years if efforts to combat it are intensified, according to a report released this Monday in Zimbabwe by the World Health Organization (WHO), ahead of the World Cup against AIDS, which will be held on Tuesday, December 1.
The document, entitled "The response of the public health sector to HIV. 2000-2015", highlights the great progress made since 2000 in the fight against the virus and recalls that the number of HIV carriers receiving treatment has grown exponentially in the last five decades.
"Almost 16 million people (worldwide) were receiving HIV Country Email List treatment in mid-2015, more than eleven million of them on the African continent, where only about 11,000 people were receiving treatment in 2000," says the WHO.
The document, which has been presented within the framework of the Conference on AIDS in Africa (ICASA), which began this Sunday in Harare, adds that the number of deaths caused by HIV has been reduced by 42 percent since 2004 - when two million people died from AIDS - until 2014, when the number of deaths dropped to 1.2 million people.
According to the WHO, these advances in the fight against the virus have saved some 7.8 million lives since 2000 and Africa is the part of the world where infections have been reduced the most.
The improvements recorded since the beginning of the century are attributed to several factors by the WHO, which highlights the importance of national programs to prevent the spread of the virus.
"Although suffering from the largest HIV epidemic in the world, many countries in Africa overcame their severe economic problems to provide sufficiently strong public responses to the virus," the report says.
The document, entitled "The response of the public health sector to HIV. 2000-2015", highlights the great progress made since 2000 in the fight against the virus and recalls that the number of HIV carriers receiving treatment has grown exponentially in the last five decades.
"Almost 16 million people (worldwide) were receiving HIV Country Email List treatment in mid-2015, more than eleven million of them on the African continent, where only about 11,000 people were receiving treatment in 2000," says the WHO.
The document, which has been presented within the framework of the Conference on AIDS in Africa (ICASA), which began this Sunday in Harare, adds that the number of deaths caused by HIV has been reduced by 42 percent since 2004 - when two million people died from AIDS - until 2014, when the number of deaths dropped to 1.2 million people.
According to the WHO, these advances in the fight against the virus have saved some 7.8 million lives since 2000 and Africa is the part of the world where infections have been reduced the most.
The improvements recorded since the beginning of the century are attributed to several factors by the WHO, which highlights the importance of national programs to prevent the spread of the virus.
"Although suffering from the largest HIV epidemic in the world, many countries in Africa overcame their severe economic problems to provide sufficiently strong public responses to the virus," the report says.