The UN has released a report on the spread of HIV/AIDS
All disease control programmes initiated must be fully funded and taken to their logical end - UN.
The UN believes that in seven years the world can defeat HIV/AIDS. However, the organisation stresses that this may happen not because of a miracle, but as a result of painstaking work of specialists. At the same time, all the programmes started to counteract the spread of the disease should be finished. This is stated in the new UN report.
It is noted that great success in eradicating the disease has been achieved in Africa, where almost two-thirds of infected people on Earth live. In particular, the five most problematic states (Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Rwanda) have already reached the "95-95-95" formula.
This means that 95 per cent of people infected with HIV know their status; 95 per cent of people with HIV are on treatment and another 95 per cent of people are taking their medication," the document says.
At the same time, the UN warned that to protect poor countries in the next two to three years, the organisation's budget is $8.5 billion short.
The head of the UN Office on HIV/AIDS, Winnie Bianima, called on rich countries to become more actively involved in programmes to fight the spread of the disease.
How HIV/AIDS can be contracted
HIV is transmitted through penetrative (anal or vaginal) sex, blood transfusion, sharing a contaminated syringe in medical institutions and injecting drug use, as well as from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.
Note, HIV is a virus that affects humans; HIV infection is a disease that develops as a result of HIV infection; AIDS is the end stage of HIV infection.
Symptoms of HIV/AIDS
HIV infection can be asymptomatic. For many years (from 5 to 15 years) it may not bother a person in any way. It also happens that the first signs may appear at an early stage, and then disappear and no longer bother the carrier of the infection for a long time.
The presence of HIV in the human body is determined by the presence of antibodies in the blood. To do this, the patient is taken blood for HIV from the vein.
It should be added that HIV is an unstable virus, it dies outside the environment of the human body when fluids containing it dry up and almost instantly dies at temperatures above 56ºC.