The United Nations has launched an innovative plan to significantly reduce new HIV infections in the Caribbean and other places.
On Wednesday, the UN said despite a 50 per cent drop in AIDS-related deaths since the peak of the epidemic, new HIV infection declines among adults are lagging, prompting the world body to launch the 0-point plan that lays out “immediate, concrete steps countries can take to accelerate progress.”
As part of global efforts to end AIDS as a public health threat, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and other partners launched on Tuesday the HIV prevention 2020 road map at the first meeting of the Global HIV Prevention Coalition to reduce new HIV infections by 75 per cent by 2020.
While new HIV infections among children have fallen by 47 per cent since 2010, the UN said new HIV infections among adults have declined by only 11 per cent.
In 2016, in the UN Political Declaration on ending AIDS, Caribbean and other countries committed to reduce new HIV infections by 75 per cent — from 2.2 million in 2010 to 500,000 in 2020.
