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WHO highlights progress in accelerating access to hepatitis C diagnostics and treatment in low- and middle-income countries WHO / Blink Media - Martyn Aim © Credits WHO highlights progress in accelerating access to hepatitis C diagnostics and treatment in low- and middle-income countries 27 January 2021 Reading time: Many low- and middle-income countries have reduced suffering from hepatitis C, thanks to increased access to testing and treatment. Some achieved a 20-fold increase in the number of people treated with safe and effective direct-acting retrovi...

Date Time Share Calling for urgent country scale-up of access to optimal HIV treatment for infants and children living with HIV Global partners that are committed to ending paediatric AIDS have come together to call on countries to rapidly scale up access to optimal, child-friendly HIV treatment for infants and children. The partners include the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Unitaid, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Found...

Joint statement calling for urgent country scale-up of access to optimal HIV treatment for infants and children living with HIV Format Global partners that are committed to ending paediatric AIDS have come together to call on countries to rapidly scale up access to optimal, child-friendly HIV treatment for infants and children. The partners include the United Nations Children’s Fund, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Unitaid, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS...

unaids.org UNAIDS Children living with HIV continue to be left behind by the global AIDS response. In 2019, only 53% (950 000) of the 1.8 million children living with HIV (aged 0–14 years) globally were diagnosed and on treatment, compared to 68% of adults. 850 000 children living with HIV have not been diagnosed and are not receiving life-saving HIV treatment. An estimated 95 000 children died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2019, in part due to lack of early diagnosis of HIV among infants and children and immediate linkage to optimal HIV treatment regimens. Update Joint statement calling ...