treatment makes it undetectable and non-transmittable

In Germany World AIDS Conference. The forum presented the latest advances that could end this pandemic forever. 40 million people worldwide are infected with HIV, and another 40 million have died from the disease over the past four decades.

Despite all the information, all the knowledge we have, and all the advances in research, there are still over a million new infections every yeara devastating figure. Here in Spain, there are 160,000 registered cases, and every year we add 3,000 new cases of HIV.

HIV remains taboo. Juan Carlos Lopezan employee of the infectious diseases department of the hospital Gregorio Marañon, assures that “there is still a significant part of the population that does not send their children to school where one of the children has HIV.” The cases of HIV that have been occurring over the years could have been avoided if there had been much more sex education.

Osmel is a young man who has HIV. virus detection test and that he acknowledges that “in 40 years it should no longer be a taboo.”

“If we could conduct a serological study of HIV in the entire Spanish population, HIV would disappear in Spain with new diagnoses in a few years… in two or three years,” they note. Gregorio Maranon Hospital

Eight out of ten new HIV cases are men. This is their profile: they have become increasingly heterosexual since LGBTI groups is more sensitive.

When treated, HIV becomes an infection chronic, undetectable and transmissible. However, there are 10 million people in the world who do not receive treatment. The latest advance in medicine is that the patient is given two injections a year. The only downside is that it is too expensive, as the cost per patient is $40,000.

At an affordable price, it could end this pandemic that has caused 40 million deaths over 40 years.