addresses the UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS (Photo: VNA)New
York (VNA) – It is necessary to speed up efforts to put an end to the
AIDS pandemic in 2030, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at the United
Nations (UN) General Assembly’s high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS on June 8.
Addressing
the event held virtually, the Deputy PM stressed the need to ensure sufficient
resources for HIV/AIDS response, especially for developing nations,
non-disruptive supply of antiretrovirals and accelerating the development of
and cure medicines.
Dam
reiterated Vietnam’s commitment to achieve the 90-90-90 target (90 percent of
all people living with HIV know their disease status, 90 percent of all people
with diagnosed HIV infection receive sustained antiretroviral therapy, and 90
percent of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral
suppression), stressing that to reach the upcoming 95-95-95 goal, the world
needs 100-100-100 effort, and even more.
At
the meeting, President of the Volkan Bozkir, UN Deputy
Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie
Byanyima lauded the active engagement of member countries in coping with
over the years.
Bozkir
described AIDS as an epidemic of inequalities. To end AIDS by 2030,
he called for ending inequalities.
Ending
the disease is both a prerequisite for — and a result of — implementing the
Sustainable Development Goals, he stressed.
According
to UNAIDS, 37.6 million people across the globe were living with HIV in 2020,
including 27.4 million people accessing antiretroviral therapy, more than three
times higher than that in 2010, at 7.8 million.
The
number of people died from AIDS-related illnesses fell 43 percent in 2020 to
690,000./.
Source: VietnamPlus
