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Is it possible to end new cases of HIV by 2030?

2025/6/5
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Makochi Okafor: 艾滋病毒是一种攻击免疫系统的性传播疾病。虽然存在许多关于艾滋病毒的错误信息，但现在有很多有效的治疗工具，如抗逆转录病毒药物和PrEP，可以帮助感染者生存并防止病毒传播。非洲是艾滋病毒感染率最高的地区，但全球范围内的病例正在减少。然而，污名化仍然是一个大问题，阻碍了人们寻求治疗和预防。美国国际开发署（USAID）的资金削减对非洲大陆的艾滋病毒治疗和预防产生了重大影响，导致药物短缺和检测减少。各国需要增加对艾滋病毒项目的资助，并加大力度消除污名化和错误信息，才能实现到2030年消除所有新发艾滋病毒病例的目标。 Ben: 我从2020年开始服用PrEP，这是一种额外的预防措施，以确保我的安全。在我的国家，我可以免费获得PrEP。 Atalia Jimenez: 特朗普总统暂停了对美国国际开发署（USAID）的资助，这对许多依赖美国支持的艾滋病毒项目造成了打击。即使国会介入恢复了部分资金，许多系统已经被拆除，人们无法获得药物。

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World leaders pledged to end the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030. And the World Health Organisation aims to reduce HIV infections from 1.5 million in 2020 to 335,000 by 2030. The African continent still has the highest number of HIV infections globally.

How will cuts to the US government's main overseas aid agency, USAID, affect the treatment and prevention of HIV in Africa? And will it make it harder for countries to end new cases of HIV by 2030?

BBC Africa health correspondent Makuochi Okafor explains what HIV is and how it’s currently treated and prevented. He also breaks down some of the misinformation around HIV and PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) which stops HIV getting into your body. And we discuss what impact the cuts to USAID are having on HIV treatment and prevention programmes.

BBC journalist Nathalia Jimenez also gives us a brief guide to the cuts to USAID.

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