Word: hiv
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...What will work for anyone affected by HIV, however, is learning how to find strength and hope from each other. "I just want other people with HIV to know that it doesn't stop me from reaching my goals in life," says Alisha Saleem, 20, a Florida college student who has lived with HIV for her whole life. "If you have a strong, positive attitude, you know that you can still achieve anything whether you have the illness or not. I take my medicines every day, and it's hard. Sometimes I don't want to take them...
...First steps first, however. In much of the developing world, AIDS's youngest patients have yet to see an anti-HIV medicine - if the Clinton Foundation can change that, then problems of adherence in those regions are ones that AIDS doctors and patients alike would rather have...
...That's how many HIV-positive children in the developing world actually get treatment for their disease. It's not a surprising statistic, given the state of health care in many developing nations, but it's one that the Clinton Foundation wants to change. The foundation - in collaboration with generic India-based drug makers Cipla, Ranbaxy and others - announced on Thursday that it had negotiated lower prices for 19 different pediatric AIDS drugs, slashing the price tag for these medications by 45% from their current minimum market price for the developing world. The foundation even went one step further - they...
...certainly welcome news for the 530,000 young children newly infected with HIV last year and for the over 2 million children and adolescents currently living with the virus. For them, getting the treatments that have saved millions of lives in the U.S. and Europe was especially difficult - in part due to the scarcity of health-care workers that can barely care for HIV-positive adults, much less babies and children, and in part due to the fact that AIDS medications simply didn't come in doses made for children. The few child-friendly regimens that have been available...
...priced drugs from manufacturers in the next year, and two of the largest drug purchasers for the developing world - the U.S.'s PEPFAR program and the Global Fund - will follow suit. And merely funneling drugs to the youngest patients won't stem the growing tide of children infected with HIV - the most common source of new infections among children now is through mother-to-child transmission at birth. Without proper prenatal prevention programs aimed at young mothers, the number of children newly infected each year will continue to climb. Once they reach the youngsters, health-care workers and families will...