Thread by @WHO

The world has made significant progress but #HIV is far from over. In 2020, there were:
 
🚨 37.6 million people living with HIV
🚨 690000 AIDS-related deaths
🚨 1.5 million new infections

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Despite the challenges of #COVID19, the #UNGA 🇺🇳 High-Level Meeting offers us a chance to end #AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. bit.ly/3za8iuR

Over the past 4 decades more than
 
7⃣7⃣ million people have been infected with #HIV
3⃣5⃣ million people have died from #AIDS
 
This #UNGA 🇺🇳 High-Level Meeting must ensure the effective prevention tools we have are used as widely as possible. 👉bit.ly/3za8iuR

Ending #AIDS by 2030 means
 
✅ strengthening the delivery of #HIV prevention & treatment through primary health care
✅ empowering communities & health workers to reach marginalized & overlooked groups
 
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https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1403043201137664005

WHO welcomes new political declaration commitments during #UNGA 🇺🇳 on AIDS to
 
🚩 ensure that 9⃣0⃣% of people living with HIV receive tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment
🚩 reduce #AIDS-related TB deaths by 8⃣0⃣% by 2025
 
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🆕 political declaration on HIV/#AIDS commits to
 
REDUCE
 
📉 new HIV infections to under 370000 annually
📉 AIDS-related deaths to 250000
 
ELIMINATE
 
❌ new #HIV-infections among children
❌ all forms of HIV-related discrimination by 2025

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https://twitter.com/who/status/1403035080201838604