Suara.com – On World AIDS Day 2020, the World Health Organization or WHO calls on the leaders of every country and citizens of the world to unite in global solidarity to overcome the challenges posed by Covid-19 in the response HIV. This call was also chosen by WHO as the theme for World Aids Day today.
WHO said the global HIV epidemic might increase during pandemic Covid-19. This is due to the negative impact that has been felt on the HIV-AIDS community in a number of countries.
WHO data in 2019 recorded that there are still 38 million people living with HIV infection. One in five people with the HIV virus are unaware of transmission and one in three people who receive HIV treatment experience disruption in the provision of treatment, testing and prevention services, particularly children and adolescents.
Also in 2019, around 690 thousand people died related to HIV and 1.7 million people were newly infected. Nearly 62 percent of these new infections occurred between MARPs and their partners.
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However, WHO reports that progress in HIV services actually stopped before the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Slowing progress means the world will miss the” 90-90-90 “target for 2020,” he was quoted as saying on the official WHO website, Tuesday (12/1/2020).
It explained that the 90-90-90 target means the world ensures that 90 percent of people living with HIV know their status, 90 percent of people diagnosed with HIV are receiving treatment, and 90 percent of all people receiving treatment have achieved viral suppression.
The loss of this intermediate target will make it even more difficult to achieve ending HIV-AIDS infection by 2030. In addition, the condition of the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened essential HIV services.
“Covid makes it difficult and dangerous for frontline health workers to provide high-quality and sustainable HIV services to all those who need them,” wrote the WHO website.
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The corona virus, which is still endemic and limited movement, makes it difficult for people living with HIV-AIDS or PLWHA to access services. The economic disruption caused by the impact of the pandemic has also made HIV services unreachable or inaccessible.
WHO says that a pandemic could disrupt supply chains and service delivery. For example, by July 2020, a third of people taking HIV treatment experienced drug shortages or supply interruptions.
A WHO and UNAIDS model study suggests that a six-month interruption in access to HIV drugs could account for twice as many AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020 alone.
“Now is the time for us to once again make leaps and bounds in our response to work together to end Covid-19 and get back on track to ending HIV by 2030,” the WHO said.
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