The Chairman of Fiji National HIV Outbreak Cluster Response Taskforce, Doctor Jason Mitchell appeared on fijivillage Straight Talk With Vijay Narayan.
Fiji now has the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic.
A UNAIDS report titled 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, states that since 2014, the number of new HIV infections in Fiji has risen ten-fold.
Recent statistics have also revealed a concerning rise in HIV cases in Fiji, with 1,583 new diagnoses recorded between January and December 2024 - and of these, a staggering 90.3 percent are iTaukei which is equivalent to 1,430 individuals.
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