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The world has missed all of the targets for tackling Aids by 2020 and "time is running out" to end the disease in the next ten years, according to a new United Nations report.

@jriggers has the latest ~ 🧵
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📈Despite some major achievements, including cutting deaths by 43% in the last decade and infections by 30%, progress has been patchy and in some regions – such as Eastern Europe and Central Asia – new HIV infections are actually on the rise

🌐 Globally, there were three times as many new infections in 2020 – a total of 1.5 million – than the hoped for 500,000, the report from @UNAIDS found

🔴Despite the fact that Aids has been "one of the deadliest pandemics of modern times" – killing more than 30 million people since it was first reported 40 years ago – it remained "unfinished business," @Winnie_Byanyima said of the findings

⌛️By 2020, the aim was for the "90-90-90" target to have been reached: 90% of HIV-positive people knowing they have the virus; 90% of them on medication; and 90% of them with viral levels suppressed to a level low enough to mean they could not pass it on

📉Those targets have not been universally met, either: instead they are at 84, 87 and 90% respectively.

Ms Byanyima said the criminalisation of gay sex, drug use and sex work in many countries continued to "stand in the way" of testing and treatment

🔊Campaigners said that the world is "sleepwalking towards a new Aids emergency" and action needs to be taken now

@jriggers reports
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