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HIV response slumps due to Covid-19.
In 2016, when the United Nations set a target of reducing annual new HIV infections to less than 500,000 by 2020, a pandemic was not in its agenda. Today, as the world fights back a virus that has reinvented itself time and again, the UNAIDS announced that the global response against HIV has slowed down due to Covid-19. The report further highlighted that the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities around the world and that the funding towards the cause has dried up due to the global health crisis and the war in Ukraine. The global AIDS update 2022 comes days before HIV experts, researchers, policymakers and rights groups meet at Montreal for the annual International AIDS Conference.
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