World AIDS Day December 1st
On December 1st is the 33rd World AIDS Day, worldwide and let’s celebrate the progress made in the fight to end AIDS. The United States has played a transformational leadership role in funding and driving a global effort to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Despite the significant progress, nearly 500 children are still infected with the virus every day, primarily via mother-to-child transmission, and only 53 percent have access to the medications they need to stay healthy. Without treatment, half of HIV-infected infants will die before their second birthday. Just as troubling, deaths among adolescents living with HIV have doubled since 2000, despite a decade-long decline in AIDS-related deaths.
This year, World AIDS Day, EGPAF is calling on U.S. leaders and politicians to work together with a global, national, and local leaders to address the challenges caused by dual pandemics: COVID-19 and HIV. Since there are shortcomings in addressing children and adolescents in the HIV response existed even before COVID-19 related health service interruptions began.
