UN FRAMEWORK TO GIVE 15 MILLION PEOPLE ACCESS TO HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT

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UN FRAMEWORK TO GIVE 15 MILLION PEOPLE ACCESS TO HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL
TREATMENTNew York, Jul 13 2013 9:00AMThe United Nations today
launched a new framework which seeks to give 15 million people with
HIV/AIDS access to antiretroviral treatment by the year 2015.

The framework, entitled Treatment 2015, offers countries and partners
practical and innovative ways to increase the number of people
accessing antiretroviral medicines that will enable those living with
HIV to live longer and healthier lives, as well as help prevent new
infections.

"Reaching the 2015 target will be a critical milestone," said Michel
Sidibé, the Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
(UNAIDS). "Countries and partners need to urgently and strategically
invest resources and efforts to ensure that everyone has access to HIV
prevention and treatment services."

Treatment 2015 takes into account the new consolidated guidelines on
the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV
infection released last month by the World Health Organization (WHO),
which recommend that people living with HIV start antiretroviral
therapy (ART) much earlier.

"The scale up of ART is an unprecedented global success story for
public health," said WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. "Maintaining
this momentum will require earlier treatment and innovative ways for
enabling more people to take the medicine such as the one-pill daily
regimen recommended by the new WHO guidelines."

According to UNAIDS, nearly 10 million people living with HIV were
accessing antiretroviral treatment last year, and the target to reach
15 million is a push to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)
that seeks to have halted and begun the spread of HIV/AIDS by the 2015
deadline.

However, the report notes that 30 countries account for 9 out of 10
people who are eligible for antiretroviral therapy but who do not have
access.

The new strategy emphasizes the importance of HIV testing and
counselling as a gateway to expand access to antiretroviral therapy in
these 30 countries, and outlines three pillars essential to reaching
the 2015 target which consist of: increasing demand for HIV testing
and treatment services; mobilizing resources and improving the
efficiency and effectiveness of spending, and ensuring more people
have access to antiretroviral therapy.

In addition, the framework highlights that community testing campaigns
have proven to be particularly effective in countries like Kenya,
Malawi, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.

"Community health workers have the capacity to provide almost 40 per
cent of HIV service-related tasks," UNAIDS said in a news release,
adding that HIV testing and treatment services need to be
decentralized to promote easier access, and underserved populations
need to be targeted to receive access to this life-saving
treatment.Jul 13 2013 9:00AM
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