Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2021
Abstract
Over 70 million people have been infected with HIV worldwide, leading to approximately 33 million deaths as of 2020 according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS("The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic," 2020). Despite anti-viral treatment suppressing viral loads and greatly reducing HIV-related deaths, mortality remains at ~800 thousand and new infections at 1.8 million per year with no effective HIV vaccine("Global HIV & AIDS statistics," 2020-2021; "The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic," 2020). Although the world has made significant progress, global targets for 2020 were not achieved. Division, disparity and disregard for human rights are among the failures that allowed HIV to become and remain a global health crisis.
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