A new United Nations report shows that progress in solving the AIDs crisis has slowed with a person dying every minute of AIDs-related causes. Nearly 40 million people were living with HIV last year, according to a new United Nations (UN) report on Monday which stated that over 9 million weren't receiving any treatment, causing the death every minute of someone due to AIDs-related causes. While advances are being made to end the , the report said progress has slowed, funding is shrinking, and new infections are rising in three regions: the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America.
In 2023, around 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses, a significant decline from the 2.1 million deaths in 2004. But the latest figure is more than double the target for 2025 of fewer than 250,000 deaths, according to the report by UNAIDS, the UN agency leading the global effort to end the pandemic.
Gender inequality is exacerbating the risks for girls and women, the report said, citing the extraordinarily high incidence of HIV among adolescents and young women in parts of Africa. The proportion of new infections globally among marginalized communities that face stigma and discrimination – sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people who inject drugs also increased to 55 per cent in 2023 from 45 per cent in 2010, it said. "World leaders pledged to end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030, and they can uphold their promise, but.