World AIDS Day: One child was infected with HIV every 2 minutes in 2020, UNICEF report finds out

The UNICEF report claimed that 1,20,000 children, or one child every five minutes, died due to AIDS-related causes in 2020.

New Delhi: A new UNICEF report has claimed that at least 3,00,000 children, or one child every two minutes, were newly infected with HIV in 2020. The report was published on Monday (November 29) ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1.

It also stated that 1,20,000 children, or one child every five minutes, died due to AIDS-related causes during the same period.

The latest HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) Global Snapshot also warned that a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic is deepening the inequalities that have long driven the HIV epidemic and is also putting vulnerable children, adolescents, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers at increased risk of missing HIV prevention and treatment services.