Over 45 thousand people in Uzbekistan live with HIV, Gulifor Normuratova, the Deputy Director of the Republican Center for the Fight Against AIDS said in a briefing on Thursday (February 2). According to her, the number of available tests surged five-fold last year reaching 3.5mn.
Annually 600 children of infected mothers are provided with dry milk to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Social allowances have been established for HIV-infected children under the age of 18.
Besides, the United Nations General Assembly put forward the 95-95-95 strategy to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
120bn UZS and $54mn have been allocated for the Program of Comprehensive Measures for 2023-2027 to combat the spread of HIV infection among the population.
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