In excess of 33% of the world's nation-state, they are in danger of coming up short on life-sparing AIDS drugs in view of disturbances to gracefully lines and different issues brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Twenty-four out of those 73 countries have just detailed basically low supplies of the imperative antiretroviral drugs, the organization said.
"The discoveries of this study are profoundly concerning," the WHO's chief general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an announcement toward the beginning of the International AIDS meeting.
"We can't let the COVID-19 pandemic fix the hard-won increases in the worldwide reaction to this malady."
The WHO said about 8.3 million HIV-constructive individuals are dependent on the antiretroviral drugs in the 24 most exceedingly terrible hit states - about 33% surprisingly taking HIV treatment all-inclusive.
It didn't name the influenced nations in its overview.
While there is no remedy for the human immunodeficiency infection that causes AIDS, drugs known as antiretrovirals (ARVs) can control the infection and forestall HIV-constructive individuals from transmitting it by means of sex to other people.
Around 38 million individuals overall are presently contaminated with HIV.
The overview found that during the progressing COVID-19 episode, a disappointment of providers to convey ARVs on schedule, joined with definitely decreased land and air transport and restricted access to wellbeing administrations, have made significant disturbances sedate supplies.
The WHO has given direction on keeping up access to basic wellbeing administrations, for example, HIV treatment and testing centers, during the pandemic. It says wellbeing specialists ought to consider "multi-month apportioning" for AIDS drugs - an arrangement whereby prescriptions are recommended for as long as a half year.