{"id":145945,"date":"2022-02-08T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=145945"},"modified":"2022-02-08T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:41:08","slug":"new-hiv-variant-not-a-major-public-health-threat-unaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/02\/08\/new-hiv-variant-not-a-major-public-health-threat-unaids\/","title":{"rendered":"New HIV variant not a major public health threat &#8211; UNAIDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) has disclosed that the newly discovered Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) variant does not represent a major public health threat.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that scientists last Thursday<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0announced the discovery of a new \u201chighly virulent\u201d strain of HIV in the Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They referred to it as the subtype-B HIV-1 and dubbed it the VB variant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abk1688\">study<\/a>\u00a0said people living with the new HIV subtype experience double the rate of immune system decline (CD4 count), have higher HIV viral loads (amount of virus in the blood) and are vulnerable to developing AIDS two to three times faster after diagnosis than if they were living with other strains of the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement on\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/pressreleaseandstatementarchive\/2022\/february\/20220207_hiv-variant\"><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/a>, UNAIDS said the HIV pandemic continues to take a life every minute and scientists have long worried about the evolution of new, more transmissible, variants of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/05\/how-taraba-stopped-hiv-patients-from-dying-of-covid-19-complications\/\">HIV<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It, however, said the newly identified variant \u201cdoes not represent a major public health threat but underscores the urgency of speeding up efforts to halt the HIV pandemic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHIV remains the deadliest pandemic of our time\u2014an estimated 79 million people have become infected with the virus, for which there is still no vaccine and no cure,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSome 36 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the pandemic and 1.5 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2020. Of the 38 million people living with HIV today, 28 million are on life-saving antiretroviral therapy, keeping them alive and well and preventing transmission of the virus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to the statement, Eamonn Murphy, UNAIDS deputy executive director, programme said 10 million people living with HIV worldwide are not yet on treatment, fuelling the continued spread of the virus and potential for further variants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe urgently need to deploy cutting-edge medical innovations in ways that reach the communities most in need. Whether it\u2019s HIV treatment or COVID-19 vaccines, inequalities in access are perpetuating pandemics in ways that harm us all,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Programme on HIV\/AIDS (UNAIDS) has disclosed that the newly discovered Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) variant does not represent a major public health threat. Recall that scientists last Thursday\u00a0announced the discovery of a new \u201chighly virulent\u201d strain of HIV in the Netherlands. 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