{"id":45211,"date":"2026-09-11T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45211"},"modified":"2026-09-11T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T05:30:59","slug":"eastern-southern-africa-make-significant-hiv-aids-progress","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/eastern-southern-africa-make-significant-hiv-aids-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern, Southern Africa make significant HIV\/AIDS progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Four decades into the global HIV response, Eastern and Southern Africa has made significant progress in reducing new infections and AIDS related deaths.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A new United Nations (UN) AIDS Special Report, launched ahead of the 26th International AIDS Conference, shows a 62-percent decline in both new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths in the region since 2010.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But UNAIDS says that progress remains fragile, with millions of people still living with HIV and prevention and treatment programmes facing challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The latest figures from\u00a0UNAIDS\u00a0paint a picture of both progress and vulnerability in Eastern and Southern Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Since 2010, new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have each fallen by 62 percent, while seven countries in the region have reached the 95-95-95 targets for HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bathsheba Okwenje from UNAIDS says new prevention technologies are also changing what is possible in the fight against HIV.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16484,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-45211","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Eastern, Southern Africa has made significant progress on","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45212,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45211\/revisions\/45212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}