(UPDATE) PARIS — Fewer people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that this decline was still far too slow.
PARIS — Fewer people contracted the human immunodeficiency virus last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that this decline was still far too slow.About 1.3 million people contracted the disease in 2023, according to the new report from the Joint UN Program on HIV /AIDS, or UNAids.That is still more than three times higher than needed to reach the UN's goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
Christine Stegling, deputy director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, speaks to the media about the World AIDS Day Report 2024 during a press conference at the UN’s European headquarters in the city of Geneva, southwestern Switzerland, on Nov. 26, 2024. EPA PHOTOAbout 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year, the lowest level since a peak of 2.1 million in 2004, the report said ahead of World AIDS Day on Sunday.
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