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GENEVA / HIV REPORT
STORY: GENEVA/ HIV REPORT
SOURCE: UNTV CH / UNAIDS
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 12 JULY 2016 GENEVA / FILE
FILE - UNTV CH
1. Aerial shot, Palais des Nations
UNTV CH 12 JULY 2016 GENEVA
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“Every year since 2010 our data this year is showing clearly that we have a 1.9 million adults have become infected with HIV”.
4. Close up, Prevention gap report
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“Key population still don’t have access to HIV prevention services, gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex worker and their clients, transgender people, people who inject drugs and prisoners account for 35 percent of all new infections amongst adults”.
6. Close up, Prevention gap report
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“I am calling for a fast track response to close the prevention gap. The world has committed to reducing new HIV infection by 75 percent by 2020”.
8. Medium shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS:
“Let me say that we need to achieve ‘90 90 90’: 90 percent of people living with HIV who know their status, it means that we need to quicken the pace, we need to certainly make testing more simpler and make sure that people who don’t know their status could know their status and 90 percent of the people who know their status on treatment, if they are positive, and 90 percent of people on treatment with suppressed viral load”.
10. Medium shot, journalists
11. Close up, press release
12. Medium shot, panel
FILE - UNAIDS JUNE 2016, CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES
13. Wide shot, busy street
14. Wide shot, young people on the street
15. Wide shot, Counsellor at Cebe Plus giving information to young people on HIV
16. Wide shot, people listening to the Counsellor
17. Med shot, people writing notes
18. Med shot, young man walking into room
19. Wide shot, young man with nurse
20. Close up, young man getting HIV test
FILE - UNAIDS -MAY 2016, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
21. wide shot, bar “Nathan café”
22. wide shot, people in the bar
23. close up, Break The Chains poster
24. Med shot, Counselor speaking with young woman in French
25. close up, nurse
26. Med shot, young man getting HIV test
27. Close up, young man getting HIV test
In a new report, the UN AIDS agency released today that while new HIV infections had fallen dramatically in the past two decades, especially among children, the trend among adults has stalled and even risen in a number of places over the past five years. Action was needed to prevent a rebound in the global epidemic.
Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, told today to the media in Geneva that “every year since 2010 our data this year is showing clearly that we have a 1,9 million adults have become infected with HIV."
Globally, some 36.7 million were now infected, the UNAIDS said in its “Prevention Gap report”. New HIV infections among adults are rising in some regions.
Michel Sidibe said that “in Eastern Europe for example and Central Asia new infections have increased by 57 percent in the last five years. In the Caribbean by 9 percent, by 2 percent in Latin America and in the Middle East and North Africa by 4 percent”.
According to the UNAIDS Executive Director there is “a 5-year window of opportunity. If we miss this, we will have a rebound in this epidemic, we'll have resistance and we will not be able to control the epidemic and make sure that we end it by 2030".
Young women aged 15-24 years are at particularly high risk of HIV infection, accounting for 20 percent of new infections among adults globally last year, the report said.
Michel Sidibe reported that “HIV prevention is not working for young women in Sub-Saharan Africa. They need more options. 75 percent of new infections amongst adolescents between 10-19 years are adolescent girls in Africa”.
In Eastern Europe and central Asia, which registered a 57 percent increase in annual new HIV infections over the last five years, about half of new infections are among people who inject drugs.
Sidibe said that the epidemic was moving slowly from at-risk groups to the general population.
According to the report it is essential for key populations to have access to the full range of HIV prevention options in order to protect themselves and their sexual partners from HIV. It is estimated that men who have sex with men are 24 times more likely to become infected with HIV than the general population.
Mr. Sidibe emphasized that “key population still don’t have access to HIV prevention services, gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex worker and their clients, transgender people, people who inject drugs and prisoners account for 35 percent of all new infections amongst adults”. That is why the UNAIDS Executive Director called “for a fast track response to close the prevention gap. The world has committed to reducing new HIV infection by 75 percent by 2020”.
But the UNAIDS report found only around 17 million patients worldwide - less than half of those diagnosed as HIV positive - are on treatment.
Michel Sidibe reminded of 90-90-90, an ambitious treatment target to help end the aids epidemic. “Let me say that we need to achieve ‘90 90 90’: 90 percent of people living with HIV who know their status, it means that we need to quicken the pace, we need to certainly make testing more simpler and make sure that people who don’t know their status could know their status and 90 percent of the people who know their status on treatment, if they are positive, and 90 percent of people on treatment with suppressed viral load”.
The UNAIDS report said significant progress had been made in stopping new HIV infections among children, with new cases down by more than 70 percent since 2001.
The report of rising numbers of new HIV infections are coming as data reveal donor funding has declined to its lowest level since 2010, it said.
International donor contributions fell from a peak of $9.7 billion in 2013 to $8.1 billion in 2015.
In a new report released today (12 Jul) by the UN AIDS agency, it said while new HIV infections had fallen dramatically in the past two decades, especially among children, the trend among adults has stalled and even risen in a number of places over the past five years. UNTV CH, UNAIDS
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