Mozambique: Aids-Related Deaths Fall By 19%

Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities have recorded, in the last eight years, a reduction of AIDS-related deaths by 19 percent, which means that the 54,000 cases recorded in 2015 fell to 44,000 in 2023.

In the same period, there was also a reduction in new HIV infections, from 143,000 in 2015 to 81,000 in 2023.

The same trend can be seen in the number of new HIV infections in children (aged 0 to 14), which fell from 19,000 in 2015 to 12,000 in 2023, and the rate of vertical transmission of…