MAPUTO, May 15– Mozambique is working to implement sustainable solutions to combat HIV/AIDS, seeking to reach a global strategy to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, the country’s parliament announced on Tuesday. Mozambique’s national response plan aims to boost domestic resource mobilization to support HIV prevention and treatment efforts, ensuring the sustainability of the response, said Zainaba Andala, head of the parliamentary HIV/AIDS prevention office. “In 2022, Mozambique had 2.4 million people living with HIV, of which 2.3 million were adults and 150,000 were children,” Andala added. Women bear a disproportionate burden of HIV throughout their lives, with the disparity particularly striking among young women aged 20 to 24, whose HIV prevalence is 3.1 times higher than that of their male peers, the official said. Mozambique remains among the top three countries with the highest number of people living with HIV. It also ranks second worldwide in terms of new HIV infections, according to Andala. The southern provinces of Gaza and Maputo, along with the central province of Zambezia, continue to record the highest HIV prevalence rates in the country.
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