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Dybul said that 7 million preventions would represent more than 60 percent of current annual HIV infections, but PEPFAR is slowly approaching this target...
...called PEPFAR’s long-term aims aggressive yet promising, describing its “2-7-10 goals: prevention of seven million new HIV infections, annual treatment of two million HIV-infected people, annual care for 10 million infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, concentrating on orphans and vulnerable children...
...international community’s multilateral approach has slowed the fight against the AIDS epidemic, said Stephen H. Lewis, co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization, last night. In addition, he said, the failure to address sexual violence against women adequately has hastened the spread of HIV. The talk was hosted by the Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition and the Anthropology 1825 Speaker Series in connection with World AIDS Day. “I’ve always believed in multilateralism,” said Lewis, who is also a former United Nations special envoy...
...according to a study by Harvard researchers published yesterday in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study, conducted by Pride Chigwedere, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and four other researchers from the school, also found that the infection of 35,000 newborns with HIV could have been prevented with widespread use of ARV drugs. In total, the number of “person-years”—the number of years that people would have lived with ARV treatments—lost by the South African government is estimated at 3.8 million...
...Indeed, official figures show that drug-related crime, deaths, and HIV rates among HAT participants have dropped significantly, and some of the formerly unemployed patients were able to find and keep jobs. "In many cases, patients' mental and physical health has improved, their housing situation stabilized, and contacts with addicts and the drug scene have decreased," the Federal Office of Public Health says...