HIV/AIDS Awareness Gets More Support as More Funds Gets Added to Programs

The public HIV programme is providing life-saving ART to over 800,000 people living with HIV. One of the initiatives is getting people suffering with HIV into an antiretroviral treatment program much faster than before, sometimes the same day they are diagnosed.

Most patients from other provinces and cities come to HCM City to earn a living, and many of them are casual labourers with an unstable income.

James Loduca, San Francisco AIDS Foundation vice president, pauses while speaking at a news conference to announce additional funds toward the “get to zero” HIV/AIDS initiative at City Hall in San Francisco, California, on Thursday, October 29, 2015. “We can, in our lifetime, end this epidemic for everyone”. “The sooner HIV and AIDS are normalised as chronic health conditions, the sooner South Africa will be able to eliminate the epidemic”, they conclude.

On Thursday, Mayor Ed Lee and other city leaders announced a new plan – and a lot more money to dedicate to the problem.

Under the city’s proposal, social welfare centres that offer treatment now to HIV patients would be classified as satellite health facilities of district general hospitals.

By increasing local funding to offset federal funding cuts to HIV-related services and turning to new programs, San Francisco says it can reduce new HIV infections by 90 percent by 2020, and achieve zero new infections long before 2030.

The NHCP’s campaign comes as the news media raises awareness of the growing number of HIV infections in northern Saskatchewan. The rate of new infections within the city has dropped from its peak yearly level of 2,332 in 1992 to just 302 previous year. The burden of adding treatment-based prevention to already strained healthcare systems remains unknown but could be calamitous.

“HIV is a chronic disease that is manageable with medication”, said Dr. Nnamdi Ndubuka, medical health officer for Northern Intertribal Health Authority Board of Chiefs.

“Secondly, the use of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended as a prevention choice for people at substantial risk of HIV infection as part of combination prevention approaches”.

Getting To Zero San Francisco’s Getting to Zero initiative is a multi-sector independent consortium operating under the principles of collective impact.

MAC AIDS Fund The MAC AIDS Fund (MAF), the heart and soul of MAC Cosmetics, was established in 1994 to support men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS globally. However, the cost of a month’s supply of individual drugs that make up Triumeq will amount to about US$150, whilst the more common Tenolam-E costs about US$20 per month. MAF is a pioneer in HIV/AIDS funding, providing financial support to organizations working with underserved regions and populations.

The World Health Organization recently released their data with regards to their monitoring of Tuberculosis.