"In 2023, there will never be so few people contracting HIV since the late 1980s", peak of the AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS summarized in its annual report. According to the agency, between one million and 1.7 million people were infected with HIV in 2023. It is this virus that, in the last stage of infection, causes AIDS, when the patient's life is threatened by multiple opportunistic diseases against which his body no longer knows how to defend itself.
Objective: to virtually eradicate the epidemic by 2030
AIDS deaths – just over 600,000, according to the agency’s estimates – are also at their lowest level since their peak some 20 years ago. Despite this favorable trend, the agency, which has set itself the goal of virtually eradicating the epidemic by 2030, considers this progress to be far too slow. Worldwide, some ten million infected patients do not have access to antiretroviral treatment, a therapy whose deployment has allowed countless people to live with the disease.
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“Only 15% of people who needed it were receiving PrEP in 2023”
And, if the more recent arrival of preventive treatments – said PrEP – has further accelerated progress against the disease, their deployment "stay very slow" the infection(s) progress the fastest, regrets the agency. “Only 15% of people who needed it were receiving PrEP in 2023”, believes UNAIDS, pointing out in particular the fact that anti-LGBT legislation, such as in Uganda, discourages people at risk from requesting these treatments.
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