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View all search resultsNGO warns threat of AIDS remains high
Global agency International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) says claims of an imminent end to AIDS are premature as, with funding in decline, 35 million people living with HIV will still need treatment for the rest of their lives while only 34 percent of the 26 million people currently eligible are actually receiving treatment despite the introduction of the new World Health Organization (WHO) treatment guidelines in 2013
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lobal agency International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) says claims of an imminent end to AIDS are premature as, with funding in decline, 35 million people living with HIV will still need treatment for the rest of their lives while only 34 percent of the 26 million people currently eligible are actually receiving treatment despite the introduction of the new World Health Organization (WHO) treatment guidelines in 2013.
IPPF director general Tewodros Melesse said the federation fully supported the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) vision of a world free from AIDS and their vision of zero deaths from AIDS, zero new HIV infections and zero HIV stigma and discrimination.
However, there was a danger of complacency creeping in with some media announcements about the end of AIDS, he said.
'It is better to say that the beginning of the end of AIDS is in sight, but if we rest for just one moment the progress we are making can easily be derailed,' said Melesse in an official statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
Even though the pace of the epidemic is slowing, there were 2.3 million new infections in 2012 and 1.6 million deaths, and HIV/AIDS stigma remains a major obstacle, according to official data.
The IPPF says urgent challenges have to be faced in the response to HIV. Health efforts conducted must address rises in new HIV infections in middle-income countries, generalized epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, the scourge of sexual and gender-based violence, and homophobia in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and many parts of Africa.
'There is a need to tackle the HIV response using a rights-based and inclusive approach. Efforts must focus on key populations such as sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender people, migrants, prisoners and people who use drugs,' it said. (ebf)
