Ms. Poe also said the government should study creating an office in line with the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998, which ensures and protects the rights and welfare of people afflicted with HIV-AIDS. Close to 1.2 million people live in the United States with HIV, and 12.5 percent don’t even know they are infected.
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Yet more must be done.
She said AHF was set up to achieve its mandate of enrolling 30,000 people living with the virus by 2020.
In September, that confirmation led World Health Organization to recommend that all people living with HIV start ART as soon as possible after diagnosis.
The WHO recently introduced a new series of recommendations to allow nations to expand their HIV treatments to all HIV patients.
The UN estimates that already 15.8 million people are accessing life-saving HIV treatment; new HIV infections have been reduced by 35 per cent since 2000 and AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by 42 per cent since its peak in 2004.
The Guildhall ceremony has been organised by Northampton Borough Council to raise awareness of World AIDS Day and encourage people to understand more about HIV and AIDS and their effect on people’s lives. “We still haven’t found a reliable cure or vaccine against HIV infection and the data make it clear we need to do more”.
The state has increased its availability of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which is medication that helps HIV-negative individuals reduce their risk of becoming infected. HIV still remains the world’s leading infectious killer. They include male condoms and female condoms, participation in behavior-change programmes and other prevention services for key populations.
Among the total cases, 932 percent were sexually transmitted. With almost 33,000 cases of HIV infections Jakarta has the highest HIV prevalence compared with other provinces. It says two-thirds of the estimated people living with HIV in Bangladesh are unaware of their HIV status due to a lack of adequate testing as well as treatment facilities and social stigma.
Also notably, Cuba was certified as being free of mother to child transmission earlier in 2015, he said.
At Algoma Public Health we are promoting CATIE’s (Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange) vision of getting to zero as we acknowledge that HIV is not only a global issue, it is a local one.
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The effort is at a critical juncture, with success within reach, and failure likely to result in a resurgence of the disease and its costs.
