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Take The Right Path, Ending AIDs By 2030 UN Chief Urges Leaders

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Last updated: December 3, 2024 7:06 am
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UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has said that ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, but only if global leaders commit to dismantling barriers to healthcare and upholding human rights.UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Guterres, in a statement, urged the leaders to take the right path to end the scourge.

“Every 25 seconds, someone in the world is infected with HIV.

“One-quarter of people living with HIV – more than nine million people – lack access to lifesaving treatment,” Guterres said in a message to mark World AIDS Day.

He, however, called for a rights-based approach to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment, highlighting the harmful effects of discriminatory laws and practices that stigmatised women, girls, and minorities.

“The fight against AIDS can be won,” Guterres stressed, “If leaders take a rights-based approach to ensure that everyone – especially the most vulnerable – can get the services they need without fear.”

We will overcome AIDS if the rights of everyone, everywhere, are protected. I call on all leaders to heed this year’s theme and take the ‘rights’ path,” he said.

UNAIDS, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, reinforced the call, urging governments to “take the rights path to end AIDS.”

Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director, stressed the importance of removing systemic barriers to healthcare.

“To protect everyone’s health, we need to protect everyone’s rights,” she said.

Its World AIDS Day report showed that respecting and protecting human rights can help ensure equitable access to HIV services and prevent new infections.

It also revealed how gaps in realisation of human rights, and abuses and violations obstruct the end of the AIDS pandemic.

The UNAIDS report underscores that progress will stall without a human rights-based approach. In 2023, 1.3 million people were newly infected with HIV globally, three times the target of no more than 370,000 annual infections set for 2025.

In addition, 63 countries still criminalise LGBTQ+ people, while widespread gender-based violence and limited educational opportunities for women and girls leave them particularly vulnerable.

In 2023, they accounted for 62 per cent of new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa. Worse still, nine out of ten new infections among 15 to 19-year-olds are among girls, reflecting systemic gender inequalities, according to UNICEF.

The disparity is also evident in access to treatment, including for boys and young men.

While 77 per cent of adults living with HIV have access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), only 57 per cent of children aged 0 to 14, and 65 per cent of adolescents aged 15 to 19 do.

“Children and adolescents are not fully reaping the benefits of scaled-up access to treatment and prevention services,” Anurita Bains, UNICEF Associate Director of HIV/AIDS, said.

“Children living with HIV must be prioritized when it comes to investing resources and efforts to scale up treatment for all, this includes the expansion of innovative testing technologies,” she said.

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