Number of teenagers dying from AIDS has tripled since 2000

AIDS is leading cause of death of African children and second most common killer of adolescents globally, UNICEF says.

The number of teenagers dying from AIDS has tripled in the last 15 years, a major new data set from UNICEF has found.

Across the region, an estimated 220,000 youths between 10 and 19 are living with HIV, with cities such as Bangkok, Hanoi and Jakarta being the “hubs of new infections”, it said.

“Among HIV-affected populations, adolescents are the only group for which the mortality figures are not decreasing”, UNICEF said in a statement Friday.

Among adolescents in that age group in the region, just over 1 in 10are tested for HIV.

However, he said the fight is not without its challenges, as the number of new HIV infections is still high, particularly among young women and girls. UNICEF, while releasing this data warned that HIV-positive adolescents must have access to proper treatment, care and support. About 50% HIV-positive teens of the world between 15 and 19 years old are from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria Tanzania, Mozambique and India, as per the report.

The global response to HIV has ward off 30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million deaths since the year 2000. With improved education regarding prevention of HIV transmission and the development of life-saving antiretroviral treatments, we were comfortable that its absence from the news indicated that it was under control.

“We have made protection our priority, from classrooms to sports fields, from the factory floor to our homes, from our bedrooms to our boardrooms, and all corners of our society”, said Deputy President Ramaphosa. “Most teenagers were infected by HIV/AIDS from the use of unsterilized syringe when they use drugs”, Subuh said on Sunday, November 29, 2015.

Roughly 1,600 people are living with an HIV infection in Durham County, officials said, making it the No. 3 county in the state with the highest average rates of newly diagnosed HIV cases over a three-year period.

Mr McArdle said that the Palaszczuk Government should also continue with the next steps planned by the LNP to reduce HIV transmission. “These efforts to eliminate mother-to-child transmission will help to change the course of the epidemic for the next generation of adolescents”, UNICEF noted.