Friday 13/June/2025 – 08:19 PM
The United Nations has announced that it aims to eliminate the HIV by 2030, according to Reuters.
The United Nations aims to eliminate AIDS
Winnie Bianima, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations AIDS Program, said the discounts made by President Donald Trump for HIV control programs will increase the disability of a stalled plan to end the disease as a threat to public health by 2030.
AIDS’s high injuries
With 1.3 million new injuries recorded in 2023, according to the latest data, the world “was already outside the right track, as Bianima told reporters in South Africa, a country with the largest number of people with HIV in the world, with 8 million.
In the main city of Johannesburg, she said after her meeting with President Cyril Ramafuza to discuss Africa’s strategy to combat HIV in light of the US President reduced billions of dollars in foreign aid last February, that the lack of funding means that we will get out of the right track more and more.
Pyneima said: We do not yet know what this effect will have, but the effect will be present. I have already seen in many countries a decrease in the number of people who go to clinics.
She added that before the cuts succeeded in reducing the new injuries, they did not decrease enough quickly to reach our goal in 2023.
Now, with societal protection clinics closed all over Africa, the injuries will certainly rise, although this height is not yet clear, she said.
And the American administration by reducing large amounts of US foreign aid to the cut -off supplies of HIV treatments, which may expose some countries to its benefit in South Africa, which funds the United States about one -fifth of its HIV budget, witnessing a remarkable decrease in examination and control of virus patients.
