UN officials are launching a campaign to change the face of HIV care and prevention, an overhaul they say would avert 1 million new HIV infections every year and 10 million deaths from AIDS by 2025.
As described in the UN Outlook report, the new approach, dubbed "Treatment 2.0," calls for:
*modifications in drug development and pricing;
*using treatment to increase prevention;
*improving health care delivery and testing;
*involving more community workers to reduce the need for expensive health care professionals and laboratories.
"For countries to reach their universal access targets, we must reshape the AIDS response," UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said. "Through innovation we can bring down costs so investments can reach more people."
Global health officials had set this year as a target for providing access to HIV/AIDS care to everyone in need of it. While that target is likely to be missed, there is an effort to refocus energy on different strategies for providing HIV care.
The study is being published in advance of the 18th International AIDS Conference this month in Vienna. To access the report, visit http://data.unaids.org/pub/Outlook/2010/20100713_outlook_report_web_en.pdf.
07/14/10
GLOBAL: UN Sets Out AIDS Treatment Plan to Save 10 Million
Source: Reuters(07.13.10):: Kate Kelland; Courtesy of the CDC National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention