This piece is about the gender divide concerning testing & treatment of HIV globally. This piece by the UN's OCHA, states they had nearly reached their global goals concerning the testing & treatment of women.
However, that was not the case with men. When it came to testing & treatment of HIV, the numbers were much worse. They estimate there's nearly 3/4 million men unaware they're HIV+. They also estimate there are over a million not receiving treatment & nearly a million not virally suppressed.
Looking at this as a global issue, it becomes very difficult to ascertain the cause of these disparities. It's an even bigger issue in sorting out how to handle them.
Until more men get on board with fighting HIV, this fight will never end. There are a lot of reasons why these men will say they haven't handled this. I can give them a good reason to handle it, to live. We are to the point that diseases like HIV should be mandatorily treated globally. I just have no idea how that would happen.
Cya...
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