By Mike Sebalu
The United Nations Program of HIV/ HIV (UNAIDS) has reported a significant progress in reducing new HIV/AIDS infections globally.
According to statistics released last week in South Africa, the fight against new infections recorded a 40 percent fewer new infections compared to that recorded in 2010.
According to the 2024 HIV/AIDS prevalence report, globally, 41 million people are living with HIV/AIDS with 1.3 million newly acquired infections with 120,000 new infections among children.
While addressing the media on the Global HIV updates and Uganda HIV estimates 2025 in Kampala, UNAIDS Country Director Jacqueline Makokha said Sub Saharan Africa continues to be the epicentre of the HIV epidemic with 50 percent of all the new infections in 2024 happened in sub Saharan Africa.
Makokha however says this progress in the reduction is not sufficient.
“There is varying decline in Sub Saharan , we see there has been a lot of progress , when you look at middle east and north Africa they have higher new infections but here in Sub Saharan Africa we had 55% decline in new infections which is really good progress but not sufficient to reach their 2025 target and to also end this as the public health , “ said Makokha Jacqueline the UNAIDS Country Director .
