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Rwanda: about 230 thousand are living with the HIV virus, where15 to 25 years old are at risk

Written by Eric Habimana

After about 230,000 people living with HIV infection in Rwanda, among the most vulnerable are young people between the ages of 15 and 25, young people are advised to avoid all the habits that lead them to unprotected sex that lead to HIV infection.

Some of the youth in Huye District say that the fact that the youth are at the top of the AIDS virus is due to the fact that they want to be rich and want money that is not want to use their hands as the way of work so they are cheated of money and property and get infected, others say it is due to drunkenness where the person who is drunk does not remember to use the means of prevention , only after they were discussed now they are going to protect themselves and teach their friends. Where they said that “some youth their don’t want to work, and also when the get some way of getting money they take it, even if it is good or bad, others they get infected when they drunk”.

Regarding the issue of youth being shown to be at the top of AIDS patients, the Executive Secretary of HRH in Rwanda Ministry of Health Dr. Patrick NDIMUBANZI, says that the government has a plan that by the year 2030 in Rwanda, the AIDS virus will have been eradicated. Forever, so that a deep campaign is needed to stop this problem because the people who are infected are the youth and they are the strength of the country.

They are saying this when in the last year of 2021, there were 38.4 million people with AIDS in the world, among them, 36.7 million are adults, and 1.7 million are under 15 years of age, where about 54 % are women and girls, and most of them are located in sub-Saharan Africa, about 75% worldwide take contraceptives, and 81% are women who are able to take contraceptives during childbirth.

In Rwanda, since the last 15 years, the infection rate is 3% for those over 15 years old, and less than 2% for children born to infected parents. In Rwanda, there are 230,000 people with AIDS, 94% of them take contracptivs, in order to achieve the goal that in 2030 there will be no more AIDS cases in the world, the country has created a plan that all hospitals and clinics now have testing services and give drugs to those who have the infection. This was announced when The International AIDS Day was celebrated for the 34th time, with the theme "Youth, let us be at the forefront in the fight against AIDS".

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