2024 Snapshot on HIV and AIDS in children and adolescents

Highlights

The job of ending AIDS among children and adolescents in Eastern and Southern Africa is not done. In 2023, 42,000 children (0-14 years) lost their lives to AIDS and 120,000 adolescent girls and young women (15-24 years), including young mothers, newly acquired HIV in this region. Yet, huge strides in programming coupled with new evidence and tools provide a clear path forward. This Regional Snapshot, produced for World AIDS Day 2024, includes all the latest HIV statistics along with the evidence-based strategies that will get us to our goals.

Author(s)

UNICEF

Publication date

November 2024

Languages

English