39,000 people died from AIDS-related causes last year, 16% of the population is HIV positive

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39,000 people died from AIDS-related causes last year, 16% of the population is HIV positive

11:27 CAT | 02 Dec 2016

Folha de Maputo (File photo)

Around 39,000 people died from Aids-related causes in Mozambique in 2015, it is estimated.

The data was made public yesterday by UNAIDS during the presentation of a report entitled “Get on the Fast-Track: The Life-Cycle Approach to HIV”, which focuses on the life cycle from birth to old age, with HIV data, challenges and recommendations for each phase.

Although new infections among children have fallen, just 10 countries account for two thirds of the number of new infections in children worldwide. In Mozambique, out of every 100 pregnant women living with HIV, six end up transmitting the virus to their babies.

“We still have a lot to do to reach the target of 81 percent by 2020 and keep those children in treatment so that viral suppression can be achieved and new transmissions prevented,” the document reads.

The publication urges countries to continue accelerating the response to HIV prevention, testing and treatment in order to end the AIDS epidemic as a threat to public health by 2030.

Approximately 1.5 million Mozambicans, or 16 percent of the total population, are HIV positive, reports RFi.

Data revealed yesterday in Maputo cited by RFi indicates that, between 2011 and 2013, new infections in Mozambique fell by 25 percent and mother-to-child infections went down from 11.9 percent to 6.2 %. percent. On a positive note, there was an 80 percent increase in people receiving antiretroviral therapy. At present, 954,000 people on the treatment.

Source: Folha de Maputo / Radio France Internationale