In order to address the alarming rate of food insecurity in the war-torn northeast of Nigeria, the United Nations humanitarian organization says it is struggling to raise enough funds. According to officials, the growing number of global crises is making aid-dependent countries compete for limited resources
Since the war started, more than 600,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Germany. Many persons with HIV, particularly women, are among them. According to UNAIDS, 260,000 Ukrainians are HIV positive
Globally, around 1.7 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2018, a 16 percent decline since 2010, driven mostly by steady progress across most of Eastern and Southern Africa
South Africa has the world’s largest antiretroviral therapy program with over 4 million people receiving treatment. But the ARV drug therapy, regarded by many as a panacea for HIV, is complicated and comes with its a number of side effects
The report said that three quarters of people living with HIV knew their HIV status in 2017, compared to just two thirds in 2015, and 21.7 million people living with HIV, or 59 percent, had access to antiretroviral therapy, up from 17.2 million in 2015