‘Cure for AIDS’ still possible by year 2030, says United Nations

The United Nations asserted that “the cure for AIDS” is still attainable by 2030, but issued a warning that the opportunity to stop the world’s deadliest pandemic must be seized.
The UNAIDS organization said that “AIDS can be ended” as a public health danger and provided a path that included funding, evidence-based prevention and treatment, empowering civil society, and addressing the disparities impeding progress.
Ending the pandemic, according to UNAIDS, was mostly a political and budgetary decision.
Executive director of the organization Winnie Byanyima stated that although “we are not yet on the path that ends AIDS,” “we can choose to get on that path”.
The goal of eliminating AIDS as a public health issue by 2030 was originally set by the UN in 2015.
According to Byanyima, the nations and regions with the highest investments are making the most headway against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
She mentioned eastern and southern Africa, where the number of new HIV infections has decreased by 57% since 2010.
The so-called 95-95-95 objectives have already been met by Botswana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
This indicates that 95% of people with HIV know their status, 95% of people who know they have HIV are receiving life-saving anti-retroviral medication, and 95% of persons receiving treatment are achieving viral suppression, making it extremely unlikely that they will infect others.
At least 16 additional nations are on the verge of accomplishing the goal.
Eight of them are in sub-Saharan Africa, where 65% of persons with HIV reside, along with Denmark, Kuwait, and Thailand.
Additionally, a 58% decrease in new infections in children was the result of 82% of pregnant and nursing women who were living with HIV having access to anti-retroviral medication in 2022 as opposed to 46% in 2010.
Last year, 1.3 million new cases of HIV infection were reported, a 59% decrease from the peak in 1995.
 ‘Dependent on action’ 
 According to Byanyima, the end of AIDS presents a chance for today’s leaders to be recognized as “those who put an end to the world’s deadliest pandemic.”
“We have hope, but it’s not the calm optimism that would surface if everything were going according to plan. Instead, it is a hope motivated by recognizing the chance.
HIV funding decreased to $20.8 billion in 2022, around the same amount as in 2013, and well short of the $29.3 billion required by 2025.
According to UNAIDS, several countries still have laws that criminalize members of important groups or their behaviors. As an illustration, the criminalization and stigmatization of drug injectors discourages them from seeking treatment.
Key communities are still disproportionately affected by HIV than the broader population, it continued.
HIV prevalence was 11 times higher in 2022 among males who have sex with men, four times higher among sex workers, seven times higher among those who inject drugs, and 14 times higher among transgender persons compared to adults aged 15 to 49 in the general population.