Thread by @WHO

Every year HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections account for 2.3M deaths, and 1.2M cancers

🆕WHO report highlights achievements, gaps, and actions towards eliminating these diseases as public health threats by 2030 👉bit.ly/3yohFH3

Each day 1 million new sexually transmitted infections are acquired; this burden is too high.

WHO report shows how this can be reduced.
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Major progress across the 3⃣ diseases has been achieved:
✅Hepatitis B infections met 2020 SDG targets
✅9.4 M🧑‍🤝‍🧑receive hepatitis C cure
✅Progress in triple elimination of mother to child transmission of syphilis, HIV,& Hepatitis B
✅Decline in mortality related to HIV & AIDS

HIV, Hepatitis B and C testing, treatment, and prevention are among the most frequently disrupted services by #COVID19

People-centred and community-led innovations were essential to maintain health services safely during the pandemic.

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Many challenges still remain. To eliminate these diseases as public health threats by 2030 the 🌍 needs ten common actions to accelerate impact, address specific gaps in implementation, and bring innovation to scale across the three diseases

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