New HIV cases in NYC drop to lowest number since 1981

More than 1.2 million in the United States are living with HIV, and one in eight of them is unaware of it.

The report says more than 18 million people with HIV are now on ART, but an equal number of people are still unable to access treatment, with many being unaware of their HIV positive status.

HIV testing is especially important for pregnant women. “People were afraid of those who had HIV-AIDS because they thought they could contract it just by being in the same room”, Kamule lamented, but was appreciative of those who “stood behind us because they had faith”.

Nearly 30,000 newly diagnosed HIV infections were reported previous year in the region, according to the joint report with World Health Organization (WHO).

Around the world coverage rates for all HIV testing, prevention, and treatment are lower among men than women, the report notes.

Sex between men remains the main reported HIV transmission mode in those 31 countries, accounting for 42 percent of diagnoses.

Students wait for their face paint to dry before an AIDS awareness rally inside a school on the eve of World AIDS Day, in Chandigarh, November 30, 2015.

But some women miss out too.

The central and the regional governments have spent over $38 million on medicines and subsidies for people living with HIV/AIDS in the region, said Zhang Feng, deputy director of the regional AIDS prevention office. The health and wellness department will also support a number of community partners throughout Fulton which are providing services. Worldwide, 78 million people unite each year to continue the fight against HIV/AIDS, to support those who are living with the illness and to remember those who have died. “It is also the one that is most cost effective in the long term and offers the best hope for current children to grow up as an AIDS free generation”, they said.

She urged member countries to implement a new action plan they endorsed in September, including improving access to HIV testing and prevention methods, to reverse the HIV epidemic.

For this year’s World Aids Day, Panumard said Thailand has set three goals to be achieved by 2030: reducing new HIV infections to 1,000 cases per year, cutting deaths among the HIV-positive to less than 4,000 per year, and reducing HIV-related stigmatisation by 90 per cent. World Health Organization supports free distribution of HIV self-test kits and other approaches that allow self-test kits to be bought at affordable prices.