Mozambique: HIV/AIDS deaths totalled 44,000 in 2023, down 10% – official report

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Mozambique: HIV/AIDS deaths totalled 44,000 in 2023, down 10% – official report

5:09 CAT | 05 Jul 2024

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Mozambique recorded a total of 44,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS in 2023, 10.2% fewer than in 2022, a year in which 49,000 people died, according to a report consulted by Lusa this Friday.

Mozambique’s goal is to “reduce the number of deaths associated” with AIDS by 50%, reads the report by the National Council to Combat AIDS (CNCS), taking 2019 as a baseline, the year in which 49,000 deaths from the disease were also recorded.

The document states that in 2023, the country registered 81,000 new infections, of which 31,000 were in adolescents and young people aged between 15 and 24. A total of 11 million tests were carried out.

The Mozambican authorities hope to reduce the number of deaths in 2025 to 24,500 and the number of new infections to 65,000, the report adds.

According to the CNCS, in 2019, at least 2.3 million people were living with the human immunodeficiency virus in Mozambique, 130,000 of whom were infected that year. In 2023, the number of people living with HIV rose to 2.4 million.

According to the document, 150,000 of the 2.4 million people infected with the disease in 2023 are children.

HIV prevalence in Mozambique fell slightly, to 12.4%, but remains among the highest in the world, according to the latest survey by the Mozambican National Institute of Health.

Source: Lusa