The UN agency establishes the Global Alliance of Children's AIDS

Xinhua News Agency, Montreal, Canada, August 1st (Reporter Lin Wei) On the 1st, at the 24th World AIDS Conference held in Montreal, the United Nations AIDS Planning Department, the United Nations Children's Foundation, and the World Health Organization announced the establishment of the Global Alliance of Children's AIDS. In order to ensure the goal of being rejected by infected HIV children before 2030, and preventing new infants from infection with HIV.

On June 12, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, UN Secretary -General Guterres spoke at the UN General Assembly AIDS Prevention Debate Conference. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Muzi)

In addition to the United Nations agencies, the alliance also includes some national governments and international partners with the worst affected by AIDS. Angola, Cameroon, Cotti, Congo Democratic Republic, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe joined the league in the first stage.

"The huge gap between the treatment coverage between children and adults (infections) said the huge gap between Children and Adults (infected). Through this alliance, we will turn anger into action. The new political commitment and the firm actions of the community can become the generation of AIDS to eliminate children. "

Catherine Russell, executive director of the United Nations Children's Foundation, said: "Although it has made progress in reducing vertical dissemination, increasing detection and treatment, and expanding information acquisition, children around the world have the possibility of obtaining HIV prevention, nursing and treatment services. It is still far lower than adults. The establishment of the alliance is an important step forward. "

According to the latest 2022 report released by the United Nations AIDS Planning Department, only about 52%of children in the world can obtain drug treatment, far lower than about 76%of adult infection.

The five -day 24th World AIDS Conference opened in Montreal, Canada on July 29. The conference is currently the largest conference on AIDS in the world, organized by the International AIDS Association. This conference adopts the form of online and offline combination. The theme is "Re -participation in science". More than 9,500 experts and scholars from all over the world, non -governmental organization representatives, etc. attended the meeting, nearly 2,000 representatives registered online conferences.

(Lin Wei)

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