World AIDS Day: UNICEF projects 1.8m child deaths by 2040 amid funding cuts

• Says 150,000 adolescents acquired HIV in 2024 • WHO reports 630,000 HIV deaths, 1.3m new infections globally in 2024 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that 1.8 million children could die of AIDS-related causes by 2040 unless countries urgently