The report, The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroads, published by UNAIDS compiles new data and case studies that show that the decisions and policy choices of heads of State and government this year will decide the fate of millions of lives regardless of whether the world’s deadliest pandemic is overcome.

Although the end of AIDS is within humanity’s reach this decade, the world has strayed from that path, as evidenced by the fact that globally, of the 39,9 million people living with HIV, 9,3 million, almost a quarter, are not receiving life-saving treatment.

As a result of this stagnation in the fight against AIDS, a disease caused by HIV, one person dies every minute from HIV-related causes.

The commitment of world leaders to reduce new annual infections to less than 370,000 by 2025 is still in force, but new HIV infections are more than three times that figure, reaching 1,3 million by 2023, according to the UNAIDS report.

This has much to do with resource cuts and increased pressure against rights, jeopardizing all the progress made.

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