Join the fight to eliminate HIV this World AIDS day

“There is a risk of not being able to eliminate AIDS at all”.

The recommendations were released in early September this year.

“Today, we have more HIV prevention options than ever before”.

South Africa has the biggest HIV treatment programme in the world, with more than three million people on life-saving antiretrovirals.

Cuomo said that while the state is increasing its funding, federal aid for housing assistance for people living with HIV has been flat for at least five years.

Previously, people were given ARVs only when their CD4 Count was 500 or below.

Among the total cases, 932 percent were sexually transmitted.

HIV infection rates are on the rise in Queensland, with the number of people infected doubling compared with a decade ago.

Since 2000, an estimated 7.8 million lives have been saved, fewer people are acquiring HIV, and projections of an end to the epidemic by 2030 – a goal once considered unattainable by many experts – are now realistic, according to the WHO report, Global Health Sector Response to HIV 2000-2015. “Short of an HIV vaccine or cure, this gives us the critical tools we need to create an AIDS-free generation with the fast-track strategy”. “World AIDS Day is an important occasion for us to reflect on how clinical research has contributed to better and newer treatment for HIV patients”, said Suneela Thatte, President, Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR).

Talking About Treatment features real life stories, aiming to increase the understanding that treatment options have become so effective that the virus can actually be suppressed to levels below detection, enabling people living with HIV to maintain their health and become very unlikely to pass the virus into others.

“Being on treatment now means that I’m taking care of my health for the longterm”, he says.

The situation is particularly acute in the Sub-Saharan African countries.

“The issue of money must not be a deterrent. So data is not available”, she said.

“And integrate HIV case detection and referral efforts into existing government and private sector supported programs such as ante-natal care services, TB-DOTS centers, and upazila health complexes in the districts that border the neighbouring countries”, he suggested.

Infections also continue to occur in Uganda, where Pope Francis is spending the weekend – and it is a country in which almost 1.5 million people are living with HIV, according to the latest United Nations data.

Only 66 percent of the 1,2 million know their status.

“We must protect ourselves and those who are nearest to us”.