BOOK: Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free: 2017 progress report
BOOK:
“The world is on
the Fast-track to eliminating new HIV infections among children and ensuring
that their mothers are alive and healthy, but we need to do more to ensure that
all children living with HIV have access to treatment immediately.....(Michel
Sidibe’ UNAIDS Executive Director)
START
FREE
Every child deserve an HIV-free beginning
-Eliminate new HIV infections among children (aged (0-14) by reducing
the number of children newly infected annually to less than 40 000 by 2018 and
20 000 by 2020
-Reach and sustain 95 % of pregnant women living with HIV with lifelong HIV
treatment by 2020
STAY
FREE
When children have an HIV-free start, we must support them to stay
HIV-free as they enter adolescence and age into adulthood
-Reduce the number of new HIV infections among adolescents and young
women (Aged 10-24) to less than 100 000 by 2020
-Provide voluntary medical circumcision for HIV prevention to 25 million
additional men by 2020, with a focus a young men (aged 10-29)
AIDS
FREE
Every child and adolescent who is living with HIV should have access to
antiretroviral treatment to stay AIDS free and reduce their risk of onward
transmission to an uninfected partner
-Provide 1.6 million children
(Aged 0-14) and 1.2 million adolescents (aged 15-19) living with HIV with
antiretroviral theraphy by 2018
-Provide 1.4 million children
(aged 0-14) and 1 million adolescents (aged 15-19) with HIV treatment by 2020
(pp 3)
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