COVID pandemic sent HIV/AIDs research ‘backwards’ | The World

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A major health conference in Canada has heard warnings that the headway made in tackling HIV and AIDS is stalling and even going backwards in some countries. Years of the COVID pandemic are taking a toll on health and foreign aid funding, leading to fewer people being tested and treated.

Clinical adviser with Medecins Sans Frontieres, Dr Ilaria Motta, says even before COVID, progress was slow.

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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.

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As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.

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