UNAIDS / GLOBAL AIDS DATA

STORY: UNAIDS / GLOBAL AIDS DATA
TRT: 05:26
SOURCE: UNAIDS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: MAY 2022, VALENCIA, CARACAS, VENEZUELA / 2022, BERLIN, GERMANY / 2022, PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA /

MAY 2022, VALENCIA, CARACAS, VENEZUELA

1. Wide shot, street seen from car
2. Wide shot, people waiting outside Mavid foundation
3. Med shot, people in reception area at Mavid foundation
4. Med shot, people waiting to see nurse or doctor
5. Med shot, doctor and patients
6. Med shot, Eduardo Franco, Director of Red Venezolana de Gente Positiva RVG+ with doctor and a patient
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Franco, Director, Red Venezolana de Gente Positiva:
"The Venezuelan State has not been buying medicine since 2016. In 2018, we had a huge shortage of medicines in Venezuela almost 100% shortage, which cost many lives of many Venezuelans living with HIV.”
8. Med shot, Franco accompanying elderly woman to a consultation
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Franco, Director, Red Venezolana de Gente Positiva:
“Our concern right now is what will happen once the humanitarian aid runs out if the Venezuelan state continues to refuse to buy medicines for people living with HIV in Venezuela as required by the constitution. Our role is to ensure that these medicines reach the people. To be able to search for and link these people who have left, who have abandoned or who are returning to Venezuela.”
10. Med shot, UNAIDS Venezuela staff with Franco
11. Med shot, Victor Lugo welcoming RVG+ and Mavid counsellor outside his apartment
12. Med shot, Lugo and Mavid counsellor sitting in Victor’s apartment
13. Various shots, Lugo picking up his HIV treatment and signing for it
14. Various shots, Lugo swallowing pill with glass of water
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Victor Lugo, 29-year-old Living with HIV:
"I came to Mavid because I saw several news reports talking about the situation of people with HIV. At that time, I was newly diagnosed and didn't know what to do. Because among the news was that there were no supplies or medicines."
16. Various shots, Acción Ciudadana Contra el Sida (ACCSI) Executive Director Alberto Nieves at computer
17. Close up, computer screen with data
18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alberto Nieves, Executive Director, Acción Ciudadana contra el Sida (ACCSI):
“The role of Venezuelan civil society organisations has been to monitor the delivery of donated antiretroviral drugs.”
18. Close up, computer screen with KoBo
19. Close up, pharmacy prompt on mobile phone app KoBo ToolBox
20. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alberto Nieves, Executive Director, Acción Ciudadana contra el Sida (ACCSI):
“Community monitoring starts with training community monitors and navigators to use data collection tools through a mobile phone app. This app is called Kobo ToolBox.”
21. Various shots, PowerPoint presentation saying group of NGOs in Venezuela linked more than 60,000 people living with HIV with treatment in the country
22. Wide shot, elderly woman (seen from back sitting) with male nurse
23. Med shot, doctor and patient discussion
24. Med shot, man getting a rapid HIV test, pin prick
25. Close up, cotton wiping pin prick
26. Med shot, Mavid nurse with gloves and litmus test

27. Wide shot, nurse stocking HIV treatment
28. Close up, pill bottles
29. Med shot, nurse at desk with HIV treatment pill box
30. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo, 48-year-old Living with HIV:
“At various times I thought of migrating for treatment when the first shortage started, I considered leaving, as many did, to Colombia to obtain it. Everything was precarious and that led to total chaos.”

FILE – 2022, BERLIN, GERMANY

31. Wide shot, people walking
32. Close up, HIV flyers and prevention manuals, red ribbon displayed
33. Med shot, brochure by Berliner AIDS Hilfe, NGO helping people live with HIV who helped more than 2000 Ukrainian refugees upon arrival in Germany
34. Close up, young Ukrainian woman living with HIV who fled to Berlin in March, listening to German translator over phone
35. Various shots, young woman going to drawer to show pill box
36. Close up, HIV treatment pill in hand

FILE – 2022, PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA

37. Wide shot, sign of HIV clinic
38. Various shots, male patient getting blood test with nurse
39. Various shots, doctor and woman during consultation
40. Various shots, woman picking up HIV treatment

FILE – 2022, NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA

41. Wide shot, city scene with mosque
42. Wide shot, mother and child at El Mina neighborhood
43. Wide shot, tent set up for HIV testing and counselling
44. Close up, HIV testing document with an ID number vs a name
45. Wide shot, people waiting outside Nurse’s station for HIV testing
46. Med shot, HIV testing
47. Close up, litmus paper awaiting result
48. Wide shot, women waiting outside

A new report, In Danger, is being launched ahead of the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. The report shows that globally the number of new infections dropped only 3.6 percent between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016.

Globally, more than 1.5 million people became infected with HIV last year. That’s 4,000 people every day, more than a quarter of them young people aged 15-24. Worldwide, an adolescent girl or young woman acquires HIV every two minutes.

Since 2014, Venezuela has suffered the deepest economic depression and largest forced displacement with six million of its citizens fleeing the country. Political turmoil and international sanctions have meant that people have been struggling with food and basic essentials.

The country’s health system has also collapsed. Many people living with HIV have not been able to get HIV treatment due to massive stock shortages.

Thanks to a community-based project, searching and linking people living with HIV to the Venezuelan health system and community monitoring of ARVs, Victor and Eduardo were able to get treatment and follow-up care. Like them, more than 60,000 people living with HIV are now connected or reconnected to the health system.

Led by the Venezuelan Network of Positive People (RVG+) and Acción Ciudadana Contra el Sida (ACCSI), along with more than 20 Venezuelan civil society organisations, they united to strengthen community outreach and monitoring of people living with HIV. Incorporating a system known as KoBo ToolBox—a free and open-source, solar-powered platform for collecting and managing data in challenging environments and humanitarian emergencies— they have real-time data regarding treatment, patient needs or other.

Globally, the number of people on HIV treatment grew more slowly in 2021 than it has in over a decade. And while three-quarters of all people living with HIV have access to antiretroviral treatment (28.7m), approximately 10 million people do not, and only half (52 percent) of children living with HIV have access to lifesaving medicine; the gap in HIV treatment coverage between children and adults is increasing rather than narrowing.

Although affordable treatments are available to prevent most AIDS-related deaths, 650,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2021.

The AIDS Conference is taking place in Montreal, Canada from 29 July to 2 August.