By Seleoe Nonyane
The global Aids response is being held back by inequalities in access to treatment, the United Nations resident coordinator to Lesotho Amanda Khosi Mukwashi has said.
Speaking at an event to mark World Aids Day on Friday, Mukwashi noted that the inequalities exist between countries, men and women, adults, young people and children in key populations.
Citing the UN AIDS Global Aids updated in July 2023, she indicated that the situation is even more disheartening among children.
While over three quarters of adults living with HIV are on antiretroviral therapy, just over 55 percent of children are on this life saving medicine, she said.
Mukwashi also said that globally, 39 million people living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral (ARV)therapy while 71 percent were virally suppressed at the end of 2022.
In Lesotho 86 percent of people living for HIV were receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy and 85 percent were virally suppressed.
This year World Aids Day was commemorated under theme: “Let Communities Lead”.
