a huge boost in funding for HIV prevention efforts could prevent up to 29 million new infections by 2010, according to a new analysis. Access to HIV Prevention: Closing the Gap , released today by a panel of AIDS experts known as the Global Working Group on HIV Prevention, provides that the group called the first book of the gap between the efforts to stop transmission of the virus and the continuing needs.
According to the report, in 02 the world spent $ 1.9 billion in low- and middle-income on prevention efforts such as condom distribution, education campaigns, counseling and voluntary testing programs, antiretroviral therapy for infected pregnant women and their newborns, and drug users and offers needles own treatment. This amount should be tripled by 05, estimates of the working group, if the world wants to avert 29 million new infections by 2010. "Without immediate intensification of HIV prevention interventions, we may see an explosion of HIV, "said Helene Gayle of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which co-convened the working group with the family Foundation Henry J. Kaiser.
The report, based on data from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), records how many effective prevention strategies still do not reach the majority of people most at risk of infection by HIV. Only 5% of pregnant women infected with HIV, for example, have access to drugs that can prevent transmission to their babies. More than 80% of injecting drug users have no access to so-called programs of "harm reduction" and only 42% of those at risk have condoms available.
Not only the rich governments must invest more in "combination prevention" efforts, the report concludes, but as if companies and foundations. "The realistic investment now will reap huge benefits in the future "says member of the working group Catherine Hankins of UNAIDS." This is not a dream. We really believe that this can happen if we are committed, and scale. "
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