“I know people who have been with the disease for
more than 35 years and are still going about their businesses, and you cannot
tell what their status is by looking at them,” Mr. Barrow said during a press
conference held at the National Aids Secretariat on Tuesday November 27, meant
to discuss this year’s World Aids Day.
Over the years, there has been an increase in access
to voluntary testing and counseling and treatment services for people living
with HIV in The Gambia.
The
first cases of HIV/AIDS in The Gambia were discovered in 1986, and today, some
18 to 26, 000 people are living with the virus, according to estimates by the agency,
UNAIDS.
It
is close to 27 years now since HIV/AIDS was discovered in The Gambia and there
have been a lot of progress, Mr. Barrow said, the highest level of prevalence
was 2.8 percent (%) and ever since the prevalence has been between 1.2% and
1.67%.
However,
an estimated 500 people still die of HIV/AIDS or related diseases every year in
The Gambia, meaning some 6000 people might have die of the disease since the
turn of the new millennium.
The theme from last year is “Getting to
zero”, an advocacy and action-oriented campaign set in motion by world leaders
to ensure "Zero new HIV infections, Zero AIDS-related deaths, and Zero
discrimination."
World Aids Day is marked globally on 1st
December. In the Gambia, the NAS in collaboration with the UNAIDS Country Office,
AATG, the National Aids Control Programme (NACP) and other partners will mark
the Day with a calendar of event that will end in mid December.
Promising
results
On a general outlook, there have been
promising results in the fight against HIV/AIDS, including The Gambia.
UNAIDS Country Officer in The Gambia Mr.
Nuha Ceesay said there have been more than 50% drop in new HIV infections
across 25 countries since 2001, of which 13 countries are in sub-Saharan
Africa, a region most affected by HIV.
High prevalence countries like Malawi
have seen a 73% reduction in HIV infections and Botswana records a 71% drop.
The pace of progress is quickening in
the wake of a global 60% increase in the numbers of people on treatment in the
last two years. Six countries have seen a 40% decrease in the number of new
infections in children in the last two years.
An optimistic Mr. Ceesay said achieving
zero new infections in children is possible the UNAIDS to believe since half of
all reductions in new HIV infections in the last two years have been among
children.
Also, countries like Botswana, Namibia, Rwanda,
Swaziland and Zambia have achieved more than 80% coverage of HIV treatment.
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