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There is hope in ending HIV/AIDS
Posted On Dec 04 2016
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“It is really going down to the communities – to the households, involving the parents, the education sector, the teachers”, Ubial said during a press briefing held, as the country commemorated World AIDS Day yesterday.
“With passage of the ACA, the role of private insurance has increased as insurers are now prohibited from excluding people with HIV from their plans, which they historically did”.
A person who takes their HIV medication properly can have a longer life expectancy than someone who smokes cigarettes.
According to Grey, there are about a thousand new infections daily in South Africa and that is predominantly in young women and men.
The coordinator said: “We are looking to diagnose 90 per cent of people on the HIV; place 90 per cent of the HIV-positive people on treatment”.
The campaign also provides information on HIV, including where to get an HIV test.
“I hope I make it to 30, and then 35, and oh, 40”, said Kent Wotten.
The lack of support for the people who are living with this virus not only isolate these people, but the unsupportive behaviour prevents them to get themselves cured.
Yozviak says treatments have also become more affordable for patients.
Denver has reached a major milestone in the fight to eradicate the HIV and AIDS epidemic. The three components are testing, prevention, and treatment.
In honor of World AIDS Day the University of Kansas’s Watkins Memorial Health Center offered free testing to students.
He and other ministers including Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and Gauteng Premier David Makhura had a not-so-pleasant welcoming, after being booed by scores of people claiming to be community health workers who had grievances with the health department.
Early this year, Hontiveros filed Senate Bill No. 376 or the Philippine HIV-AIDS Policy Act to update the government’s HIV response framework.
The statistics indicate those unable to access treatment and those unaware of their status, poses greater challenge to the objective of curbing AIDS and HIV virus.
