Coronavirus disruption to HIV treatment could cause 500,000 additional Aids deaths, UN and other agencies warn

The coronavirus pandemic could cause an additional half a million Aids deaths if treatment is disrupted long term, the United Nations warned, stressing that years of progress against HIV were in jeopardy.At the virtual International Aids Conferences, the UN said the world was already way off course in its plan to end the public health threat even before Covid-19.Although Aids-related deaths have fallen by 60 per cent since the peak of the HIV epidemic in 2004, in 2019 around 690,000 still died…

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