HIV/AIDS Care: The Minimum Package and Scaling Up

摘要: As recently as 2002, experts argued that prevention should take priority over treatment for HIV/AIDS in Africa based on cost effectiveness considerations. However, analyses failed to into account arguably the most important reason implementing widespread HIV treatment—treating sick. Twenty years epidemic, fewer than 5% of people worldwide who required had access antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) (WHO, 2002). Additionally, many programs were failing and those successful not being taken scale. In unchecked spread mounting death toll among already infected serious effects communities heavily burdened by HIV; ranging from orphaning famine stigma professional burnout. Where it was available, therapy (ART) resulted a 80% reduction mortality Many efforts alone unlikely succeed high prevalence settings unless AIDS made available combined with evidence-based such use condoms, ART prevent maternal child transmission, sexually transmitted diseases, education linked knowledge one’s status. Activism, largely led living HIV, bring highly active retroviral (HAART) countries highest burden took center stage at International Society Durbin, South 2000. 2001, United Nations General Assembly Special Session called massive increases aid help poor cope