Men at higher risk of dying of AIDS than women: UNAIDS

OTTAWA: Men are less inclined to test for HIV or access antiretroviral treatment and, thusly, will probably bite the dust of AIDS-related diseases than ladies, UNAIDS said on Friday. 

Around the globe, less than half of HIV-positive men are getting treatment, contrasted with 60 percent of ladies, as per an UNAIDS report discharged on World AIDS Day. 

Men are likewise more probable than ladies to begin treatment late, interfere with it, and not catch up after treatment. 

Around 36.7 million individuals on the planet were living with HIV in 2016, however less than 21 million individuals approached antiretrovirals, as indicated by UNAIDS. 

Helps or related ailments executed one million individuals worldwide in 2016 and an expected 1.8 million new diseases were accounted for. 

In sub-Saharan Africa, men living with HIV are 20 percent less inclined to know their HIV status than ladies. In a similar locale, condom use for one-night stands is low among more established men, who are likewise more prone to be HIV-positive. 

"These information are steady with thinks about demonstrating a cycle of HIV transmission from more established men to more youthful ladies, and from grown-up ladies to grown-up men of a comparative age in places with high HIV pervasiveness," said UNAIDS. 

Gay men are 24 times more inclined to contract HIV than hetero men. 

What's more, in more than twelve nations, including Mexico and Nigeria, more than 15 percent of gay men live with AIDS. 

UNAIDS likewise condemned the decrease in condom use in Australia, Europe and the United States. 

"On the off chance that we enable lack of concern to grab hold, HIV will flourish and our expectations of closure the AIDS plague by 2030 will be dashed," said UNAIDS Director Michel Sidibe.