Friday, December 2, 2011

Unparalleled global progress in HIV response but sustained investment vital

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2011/hiv_20111130/en/index.html



It is good to hear that global progress in both preventing and treating HIV emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term.  According to WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and a 22& decline in AIDS-related deaths in the last five years. However, it is too early to satisfy with the progress we had been achieved that there are still many things to be done. The reports from WHO shows that more than half of the people who need antiretroviral therapy in low- and middle-income countries are still unable to access to it and even bigger problem is that many of them do not even know they have HIV. Another issue is that progress for children is too slow. According to Director of the UNICEF office in Geneva, there had been gains in treatment, care and support available to adults but they notice that progress for children is slower. Among many age groups regarding the HIV issues, children are the most important group we need to pay attentions because children are the group who will live the longest with HIV for rest of their lives and that will cost money for many developing countries. It is good news that there had been an improvement in both preventing and treating HIV in last five years. However, without solving issues with people living in low-income countries where people do not even know if they have HIV and an issue regarding children HIV, we cannot really make any further progress.

3 comments:

  1. Most of what can be done now to help with HIV/AIDS is to educate people and to offer them help. As with all programs that provide these services, funds can't just be stopped after a bit of progress has been made. This progress is great, however, it has only amounted in help for a small fraction of people who need it. HIV/AIDS is still very much prevalent in the international health arena, and in order to drive down the infection rate, people must be educated on the topic of safe sex. This way, there is a greater possibility that less children will be born with HIV and less people will become infected through sex with an infected partner.

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  2. I agree, the aggregate data shows that there is progress in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. However, most of those gains only occur in the populations that can afford them and live in an area which has access to them. The vast majority of those who need the treatment are both poor and out of the way. So while it's nice to make gains such as these, the problem still remains and will remain until action is taken to bring treatment to the impoverished.

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  3. I'm here to give my testimony how I was cured from HIV, I contacted my HIV via blade. A friend of my use blade to peel of her finger nails and drop it where she use it, so after she has left i did know what came unto me i looked at my nails, my nails were very long and I took the blade which she just used on her own nails to cut of my finger nails, as i was maintaining my names, i mistakenly injured myself. I did even bother about it, so when I got to the hospital the next week when i was ill the doctor told me that I am HIV positive, i wondered where did i got it from so i remembered how I use my friend blade to cut off my hand so i feel so sad in my heart to the extent that i don’t even know what to do, so one day i was passing through the internet i met a testimony of a lady that all talk about how she was cured by a doctor called DR Imoloa so i quickly emailed the doctor and he also replied to me and told me the requirements which i will provide and I do according to his command, he prepare a herbal medicine for me which I took. He message me the following week that i should go for a test which i did to my own surprise i found that i was HIV negative. He also have cured for all kinds of incurable diseases like: Huntington's disease, back acne, chronic kidney failure, Addison's disease, Chronic Disease, Crohn's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Fibromyalgia, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Fungal Nail Disease, Paralysis, Celia Disease , Lymphoma, Major Depression, Malignant Melanoma, Mania, Melorheostosis, Meniere's Disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscle Dystrophy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Alzheimer Disease and so many. Thanks to him once more the great doctor that cured me dr. Imoloa so you can also email him via drimolaherbalmademedicine@gmail.com or what'sapp him on +2347081986098.. God Bless you Sir.

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