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World AIDS campaigns 2024 [1]

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Date: 2025-01 

This World AIDS Day, I want to emphasize the importance of knowing one’s HIV status. There are an estimated 530 000 people living with HIV in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, but just 38% of them know that they are HIV positive.



Only those who know their [HIV] status can access treatment, live healthy lives and prevent transmission to others.



Providing voluntary HIV testing services must remain a priority for all our countries, along with ensuring access to treatment and care. And those who test negative should have access to prevention services to help them stay HIV free.

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