{"id":424257,"date":"2024-11-30T15:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424257"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Alarm-over-high-rate-of-HIV-infections-among-young-women-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Alarm-over-high-rate-of-HIV-infections-among-young-women-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm over high rate of HIV infections among young women, girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN&#8217;s children&#8217;s fund raised the alarm on Friday over the high rate of new HIV infections among young women and girls, warning they lacked access to prevention and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a report ahead of world AIDS day on Saturday, UNICEF said that 96,000 girls and 41,000 boys aged 15-19 were newly infected with HIV in 2023, meaning seven out of 10 new adolescent infections were among girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In sub-Saharan Africa, nine out of 10 new HIV infections among 15-19 year-olds were among girls in the most recent period for which data is available.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Children and adolescents are not fully reaping the benefits of scaled up access to treatment and prevention services,&#8221; said UNICEF associate director of HIV\/AIDS Anurita Bains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As many as 77 percent of adults living with HIV have access to anti-retroviral therapy, but just 57 percent of children 14 and younger, and 65 percent of teenagers aged 15-19, can obtain lifesaving medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Children 14 and younger account for only three percent of those living with HIV, but accounted for 12 per cent &#8212; 76,000 &#8212; of AIDS-related deaths in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1.3 million people contracted the disease in 2023, according to a report from the UNAIDS agency.<\/p>\n<p>That is still more than three times higher than needed to reach the UN&#8217;s goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Around 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year, the lowest level since a peak of 2.1 million in 2004, the report said ahead of World AIDS Day on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the progress was attributed to antiretroviral treatments that can reduce the amount of the virus in the blood of patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV around the world, some 9.3 million are not receiving treatment, the report warned.<\/p>\n<p>gw\/st<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9398a4cd8b9d5de6805733b0f780fb41.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Children aged 0-14 account for only 3 percent of those living with HIV, but accounted for 12 per cent (76,000) of AIDS-related deaths in 2023<\/p>\n<p>-GIANLUIGI GUERCIA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/6e892d66357ed2936d5000a27cd85a87.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Global HIV and AIDS situation improving but too slowly, say UNAIDS-Elodie LE MAOU<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/29303d522c8d023edb618507ebfe5c75.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>New HIV cases: global decline, except in three world regions<\/p>\n<p>-Nalini LEPETIT-CHELLA, Valentina BRESCHI<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/8e589df702a1d72ea0359d0969755cbb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Around 1.3 million people acquired the disease in 2023, according to a UNAIDS report<\/p>\n<p>-CHIP SOMODEVILLA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN&#8217;s children&#8217;s fund raised the alarm on Friday over the high rate of new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}