The number of AIDS patients in poor countries that have been treated has not reached the goal

The number of AIDS patients treated in poor and developing countries has tripled in two years and by the end of 2005 reached more than 1.3 million people.

A boy who cares for a mother with AIDS in Kenya (Photo: TTO) It is reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations AIDS Organization (UNAIDS). However, this number is still much lower than the target.

According to the report, the sub-Saharan region of Africa is the most prevalent AIDS epidemic, of which 9 out of 10 children infected with HIV / AIDS are awaiting treatment in Africa. And although the number of HIV / AIDS patients receiving treatment has increased, the numbers from 3 to 6.5 million patients in low-income or middle-income countries needing rapid treatment cannot be reached.

The fight against AIDS in poor countries only encapsulates in the prevention and treatment of thousands of dollars per patient per year is still out of reach of many countries. And from 2003 - 2005, the cost of the world for this disease prevention increased from 4.7 billion USD to 8.3 billion USD.

However, also during this period, less than 10% of pregnant women with HIV received medication before and during pregnancy. As a result, 1,800 babies were born with HIV / day and each year more than 570,000 children aged 15 and under die from AIDS, most of them die from infection from their mothers.

According to UNAIDS, the world needs at least $ 22 billion a year between now and 2008 to fund HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs in countries.

In another development, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that two AIDS drugs are about to be tested on humans. If these two preventive drugs, tenofovir and emtricitabine, show similar efficacy in humans as primate experiments, they will be assigned to people at high risk of HIV / AIDS infection (staff health and children with mothers infected with HIV).

Accordingly, the use of drugs every day or once a week before the virus invades can prevent infection.

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