The number of adolescents infected by the HIV virus has jumped by one third over the past decade, the UN's health agency said Monday, blaming gaps in care programmes.
"More than 2 million adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years are living with HIV," marking a 33 percent rise since 2001, the World Health Organization said.
"Many do not receive the care and support that they need to stay in good health and prevent transmission. In addition, millions more adolescents are at risk of infection," it warned.
In the world's most AIDS-affected region, sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of adolescents with the virus are girls who have had unprotected sex, sometimes under duress.
In addition, many of those born with the virus or infected at birth in sub-Saharan Africa are becoming adolescents.
In Asia, meanwhile, young drug-users were the worst affected.
The WHO said that the failure to provide proper adolescent-focussed programmes had also resulted in a 50-percent increase in reported AIDS-related deaths in the age group from 2005 to 2017.
In 2005, 70,000 adolescents died of AIDS. Seven years later, the figure was 104,000.
That contrasted starkly with the 30-percent decline in the general population, the WHO underlined.
The year 2005 marked the high point of global AIDS deaths, which hit 2.3 million. Last year, the toll was 1.6 million.
【青少年艾滋病毒感染者十年上升33%】相关文章:
★ 恋爱中自私的表现
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15