Scourge of Childhood STIs Defeats Millennium Goals

US’s sudden withdrawal from world health programs throws progress into doubt

Apr 18, 2025

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By: Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant

Children at Mai Hoa AIDS Center, Vietnam. Photo from the New York Times

With fewer than five years left to meet the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets, the world is failing in its campaign to end three of the most pernicious infections that afflict children. They are HIV, hepatitis B,…

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