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HIV therapy drugs reach one in five-study
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 08 - 2006


Only one in five people with
HIV in poor and middle-income countries receives the drugs that
treat the virus, said a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention on Thursday, according to Reuters.
That is despite a 200 percent rise in the number of people
receiving the drug treatment between 2003 and 2005 as
individual countries worked to meet a target of treating 3
million people with the drugs by 2005, the government agency's
report said.
The dramatic increase in the number of people receiving the
drugs means that globally there will be a rise in people living
with HIV and thus a growing need to boost measures against HIV
transmission, said the report.
In all, 4.1 million people were newly infected with HIV and
38.6 million were living with HIV and AIDS in 2005 in an
epidemic focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
"Approximately 10 percent of the world population lives in
sub-Saharan Africa but the region is home to approximately 64
percent of the world population living with HIV ... More women
are HIV-infected than men," said the report.
Some African countries including Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe
have seen a decline in adult HIV prevalence but in southern
Africa, the epicenter of the pandemic, only 17 percent of those
infected with the virus received the drug treatment.
The drugs save lives by treating infections caused by
retroviruses, including HIV.
The report was published ahead of the 16th International
AIDS conference in Toronto, Canada, which starts Aug. 13.
There has been major progress in the drive to prevent
HIV-positive mothers passing the virus on to their children but
only 8 percent of the relevant women receive services such as
health education, the report said.
Researchers in a separate study by the CDC and the Thailand
Ministry of Health found an "alarming" 64 percent increase in
sex between men in Bangkok between 2003 and 2005 and "low
awareness" of HIV status among all men in the study."
"The study ... underscores the need to reach (the group)
with more effective behavioral and biomedical interventions,
more frequent and increased access to HIV counseling and
testing, improved STD diagnosis and treatment and community
awareness and support," said the report.


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