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World Aids Day: Youth responsibility to stop HIV

01 Dec 2020

By Sarah Hannan The World AIDS Day commemoration for this year gives an important opportunity to recognise the role played by stakeholders of the HIV response in combating the AIDS epidemic to reach the goal of ending AIDS. Despite Sri Lanka being a low-prevalent country for HIV (less than 0.1% of the general population), there has been a gradual increase in the number of new diagnoses of HIV-infected persons reported in recent times. “While our main aims to maintain this low prevalence, in 2019 alone, 439 new HIV infections were reported. Of these, 359 were males, out of which 54 (12%) of new HIV infections were in the age group 15-24, and 89% of them were males,” National STD/AIDS Control Programme Director Dr. Rasanjali Hettiarachchi told The Morning. The main mode of HIV transmissions in Sri Lanka occurs through unprotected sex and most frequently by unprotected same sex relationships in males. This year, Sri Lanka adopted the theme “Youth responsibility to stop HIV”, considering the current epidemic patterns.  

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