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New HIV infections dropped by over 50 pct in Togo

Xinhua, July 31, 2015 Adjust font size:

New HIV infections have been reduced over the past 15 years by over 50 percent in Togo, according to official sources.

Gado Napo-Koura, the secretary general of Health and Social Protection Ministry on Thursday revealed the decrease at the opening ceremony of the 2014 activities annual review of Togo Permanent secretary of the national council to fight AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (SP/ CNLS-IST).

The review took place under the theme "Where do we stand a year before 2015" in that west African country where adult HIV prevalence was about 2.5 percent by 2014.

On his side, Professor Vincent Pitche, SP/CNLS/IST coordinator, said that this decrease has propelled Togo among the first 26 African countries that reduced over 50 percent new HIV infections.

"This decrease is more marked among children of under 15 years with 62 percent rate," he said, lamenting "less satisfactory than expected performance in Togo regarding caring for people living with HIV".

About 37,511 people living with HIV were registered by 2014 in Togo, while 2,861 children were under antiretroviral medicines.

In the mean time, AIDS related death rate dropped by 30 percent between 2005 and 2014, thanks to a free treatment program implemented since 2008.

In 2014, the government of Togo allotted 1.3 billion CFA francs, about 2.16 million U.S. dollars, to the AIDS care program and expects to eliminate mother to child transmission of HIV by 2020. Endit