United States: Despite progress in reducing HIV infections and AIDS- related deaths among children, a new report from the Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030 highlights the need for critical action in the hardest- hit countries to meet the 2030 thing.
Report Findings Successes and Challenges
The report,” Transforming Vision Into Reality,” reveals that programs precluding mom – to- child transmission have prevented 4 million infections in children progressed 0- 14 since 2000.
Data shows, new HIV infections in this age group have dropped by 38 since 2015, and AIDS- related deaths have dropped by 43.
Among the twelve Global Alliance countries and the several have achieved strong coverage of that lifelong antiretroviral therapy among the pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV with Uganda nearing 100% United Republic of Tanzania at 98% and the south Africa at 97%.
Continued Efforts and Future Goals
As reported by the official website of World Health Organization, “I applaud the progress that many countries are making in rolling out HIV services to already keep the young women healthy and to protect babies and children from HIV,” said UNAIDS Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima.
Global Alliance countries are innovating to overcome the barriers and also accelerate the progress towards ending AIDS in the Children and however despite advances neither the world nor Global Alliance countries are recently on the track to reach HIV commitments for the Children and adolescents and the pace of the progress in preventing new HIV infections and AIDS related deaths among the children has already slowed in years.
“Accelerating the delivery and uptake of HIV services for children and adolescents is a moral obligation, and a political choice,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
Call to Action
Around 120,000 children who are aged between 0to 14 years and older than that has become infected with HIV in 2023 with around 77,000 of these new infections occurring in the Global Alliance Countries. AIDS related deaths among the children aged between 0-14 years old and numbered almost 76,000 globally with the Alliance countries accounting for 49,000 of these unnecessary deaths.
Though the vertical transmission rates remains extremely high in some of the locations particularly in the Western Central Africa with the rates exceeding 20 percent in the countries including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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