World AIDS Day: "The indicators are very disappointing"

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Material de una campaña de prevención del VIH CHIP SOMODEVILLA GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP / Archivos

By: Florent Guignard Follow

The UN AIDS organization warns in a report that HIV infection curves are not falling fast enough to meet the goal of eradicating the disease by 2030. The pace HIV testing has declined almost uniformly around the world, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, adds UNAIDS.

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