Nonetheless, improvement has been made, particularly in identifying infections, Ms. Murenga said, recalling the torment of her wait for a diagnosis, and the fact that she needed to get herself tested five times before she could accept that she had HIV. Despite these types of stark figures, Ms. Murenga insists that HIV is no longer a “death sentence”. At this point, “people can diagnose a lot faster”, she insisted. “We even have diagnosis like self-test kits where you can do it within confidential and in privacy. ” Referring to a recent UNAIDS report which usually indicated that the world’s HELPS response is in danger, with rising new infections and deaths in many parts of the world, Microsoft. Murenga explained that teenager girls and young women are still disproportionately affected by HIV. “During the time I was diagnosed with HIV, there was the delay in getting outcomes, ” she said. “You’d be tested and then you will wait for two weeks to get your results. It was a very difficult time for someone to wait that long. ” “We are still seeing plenty of new infections”, she said. “It means that the treatment is not reaching everyone and where it is, people are not adhering to treatment. ”
Science plus solidarity: Kőrösi
Responsive the UN chief’s call to action, and his own core theme for the year, the President of the General Assembly , Csaba Kőrösi, mentioned the AIDS crisis had been “ripe for solutions based on science, solidarity and durability. ” In 2021, Unitaid mentioned that more than 38 million people globally were living with HIV, 1 . 5 mil people were newly infected with HIV and 650, 000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses. He said the “proven practical solutions” exist that can help end AIDS, for example more funding to boost the, quality and suitability of services for HIV treatment, testing and prevention.
“So, I did previously improvise and divide my tablet into two and provide (it to) the child. However I didn’t know whether it was affecting his body organs I didn’t understand if the dosage was okay, but I just did it to make sure that he did not die. ”
A long way to go, to protect the vulnerable
“Today, all of us risk millions more fresh attacks and millions more deaths”, he added, calling on government authorities everywhere to make the “Equalize” slogan a reality. Ms. Murenga, a Kenyan national who signifies communities living with HIV, confronted hostility and stigma whenever she was diagnosed with the virus in the early 2000s. “The driving factor can be power, ” the EL agency said, citing a study which showed that allowing girls to stay in school until they complete secondary education “reduces their vulnerability to HIV infection by as much as 50 per cent. ”
Treatment challenges
Maurine Murenga, UNITAID board associate, representing communities living with the diseases Momcilo Orlovic/Unitaid According to UNAIDS, adolescent women and young women aged fifteen to 24 years are three times more likely to acquire HIV than adolescent boys and young men in sub-Saharan The african continent. She added: “It took us a while to get medicine for children. And even when it came, it wasn’t very child-friendly. And just recently, we have paediatric dolutegravir which is child-friendly but it is the only one, the so children don’t have a number in case of resistance. ”
Support structures deficient
“The world has promised to finish AIDS by 2030”, said Secretary-General António Guterres in the official message, but “we are off track. ” By means of her organization, the Rely on Me Foundation, adolescent girls and young women living with HIV receive care and assistance, but inequalities remain in the global approach to treatment and prevention. “We need urgent measures to end inequalities which make people vulnerable to infection. When the international community acts, several. 6 million new HIV-infections and 1 . 7 mil AIDS-related deaths will be avoided this decade.
Death sentence no more
He said the particular many-layered inequalities that perpetuate the pandemic can plus must be overcome: “We can end AIDS. If we Balance. ” The last 20 years have also noticed significant innovations that have ensured the suitability of treatment regimes for younger HIV patients, albeit with some caveats, Ms. Murenga noted. “We didn’t have treatment for children and our son was also diagnosed with HIV. So that meant that I could hardly take drugs to save my entire life and leave my kid to die.
Son in peril
“(It) is really saddening because once i was diagnosed with HIV two decades ago, I was an adolescent and also a young woman, and I thought that 20 years later we would become telling a different story rather than the same sad story, ” she told journalists in Geneva briefing ahead of the International Day. “Better laws, policies and methods to tackle the stigma and exclusion faced simply by people living with HIV, specifically marginalized populations. Everyone needs respect and to be welcomed. ” Earlier within the week, HIV activist and Unitaid board member, Maureen Murenga, shared powerful personal testimony to encourage more urgency in the fight against the illness.
