According to a report seen by Lusa on Friday, Mozambique has recorded a total of 44,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS, down 10.2% from 2022, when 49,000 people died.
The goal is to “reduce the number of deaths related” to AIDS by 50%, according to a report from the National Council for the Fight against AIDS (CNCS), based on 2019, which also saw 49,000 deaths from the disease.
The document also indicates that last year the country registered 81,000 new cases of infection, 31,000 of which were registered in adolescents and young people aged 15 to 24 years, out of 11 million tests carried out.
Mozambique authorities hope to reduce the number of deaths to 24,500 and new infections to 65,000 in 2025, the report adds.
According to CNCS, in 2019, at least 2.3 million people were living with the human immunodeficiency virus in Mozambique, of whom 130,000 were infected that year, and in 2023 the number rose to 2.4 million.
According to the document, of the 2.4 people infected with this disease in 2023, 150 thousand are children.
Mozambique’s HIV prevalence has dropped slightly to 12.4% but remains one of the highest in the world, according to the latest study by the National Institute of Health of Mozambique.