Report Warns Of Dangerous Complancency'In The Fight Against HIV

Report Warns Of Dangerous Complancency'In The Fight Against HIV

In the beginning of the 2000s - the beginning of the third decade of the AIDS pandemic - the world also came together in unprecedented global health efforts to provide life-saving AIDS medicines to the world's poorest corners.

This is a huge public health story. In 2000, less than 1 million of 34.3 million people with HIV / AIDS were being treated with AIDS drugs, and lived in almost all rich countries. Today, an estimated 20.9 million people get treatment for 36.7 million people living with HIV / AIDS, most of them live in poor countries where the disease is the most prevalent.

In view of the public health community, establishing infrastructure for reducing prices on AIDS drugs and delivering people in poor countries in less than two decades, is considered as extraordinary and unprecedented.

But this is the treatment. Attempts at prevention are a different story, and if the world is not aware to stop new HIV cases, according to a 2016 report by Lancet HIV, stability on approximately two million infections remains intact in one year since 2005. Epidemic is possible. This apathetic warning came from a report by a new Lancet Commission led by the International AIDS Society and was published in Lancet on July 22, a few days before the beginning of the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on 22 July.Report has been found. Efforts to prevent the spread of HIV have been stopped, because there is a reduction in international financing for AIDS. Moreover, one of the key findings of the report is that "HIV epidemic is not to end, and the prevailing discourse has created dangerous happiness after the elimination of AIDS and may weaken the global resolve to fight HIV. 

Report Warns Of Dangerous Complancency'In The Fight Against HIV

Dr. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public with epidemiologist Dr. Chris Bearer says, "We are not actually seeing a decline in new infections, people who were hoping." "And in some populations an expansion is a worrisome sign for the epidemic."

The largest population in the risk is the same group which was considered at high risk at the beginning of the epidemic in the beginning of the 1980s: gay and bisexual men, transgender people, people who have drugs, sex workers and sexual partners of people in those groups Inject, according to the report.

And there are people who are likely to oppose the kind of health centers that provide AIDS services. In many parts of the world, in addition to other health services, AIDS testing and care has been provided in AIDS clinics alone. Bayer says, but many people with the highest risk for AIDS feel unwanted, or AIDS clinics will not be named because of the stigma still around the disease. Or they will not go because the clinics will not address their full health needs. "I met a boy in Ukraine who was dealing with addiction, HIV and TB," said Bearer, who was 100 kilometers away from each other in three centers. " "You have TB clinics that will not treat HIV, or HIV clinics that will not treat people with high levels."

People need health centers, which will take care of all their needs, the authors of the paper argue. So the researchers of the study used today's data for the project of possible outcomes of different types of care settings in the future. What will happen, for example, a country with high rates of diabetes and heart disease checks blood pressure and diabetes with HIV screening? What if the high rate of unplanned pregnancy shows women to HIV because they have offered family planning services? What if the needle exchange program was offered with AIDS services in areas of high-quality medicine usage?

In Russia, for example, injection medication users have high risk for AIDS. Therefore, researchers examined the potential benefits of combining AIDS services with clean needle exchange programs. In such a model, using data from needle exchange research, drug users who are infected with HIV may start antiretroviral treatment, or ART, which help in the prevention of transmission of AIDS, as well as using needle exchange services . Researchers have shown that such a hypothetical combination of services can stop half of new HIV cases in two regions of Russia over the next ten years.

And in Nigeria, the researchers guessed what could happen if HIV services were provided in family planning centers. Nigeria takes about one third of all mothers for HIV infections in the world. "It's a big problem in Nigeria," says Bearer. "And they also have a very valuable need for family planning, so it is not rocket science to integrate AIDS services with maternity care and family planning centers." A mix of those health services, studies found, can prevent 300,000 new HIV infections in Nigeria in the next ten years.

Dr. George Sage III, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T Chain School of Public Health says that the report suggests that HIV prevention efforts send an important warning to the world.
He was not involved in the new Lancet Report. "This assumption