HIV Treatment
HIV Treatment
 | The Handbook on access to HIV/AIDS-related treatment aims to build practical skills for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs) and groups of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) that are responding to HIV/AIDS in developing countries. It is a resource designed to help NGOs, CBOs and PLWHA groups to improve the quality of their work on HIV/AIDS-related treatment. Download this publication |
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Only about five percent of the 30 million people in poor countries who need treatment for HIV infec- tion are receiving it. As the need for treatment grows, so does the demand. The June 2001 Declaration of Commitment by the United Nations General Assembly states that “Prevention, care, support and treatment for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS are mutually reinforcing elements of an effective response and must be integrated in a comprehensive approach to combat the epidemic.” Encouraged by global support for expanding access to treatment and by a decrease in the price of antiretroviral drugs, programs are increasingly seeking ways to add a treatment component to their prevention, care, and support services. Download this publication |
| Cambodia is often cited as an example of how an effective multi-sectoral response to HIV, with strong political commitment and effective co-operation between government, non- governmental organisations (NGOs), and international organisations, can impact on the spread of infection. Cambodia has an HIV/AIDS prevalence of 2.6% in the adult population (15-49 years). Government data indicates that HIV prevalence rates in some of the populations under surveillance appear to be declining. However, the current data indicates that HIV/AIDS is not uniformly distributed throughout the country and numbers of cases of AIDS and AIDS-related deaths continue to increase. Download this publication |
| The escalating HIV epidemic in Cambodia is now producing an expanding need for HIV/AIDS care, as people progress to advanced and symptomatic HIV disease. This need for HIV/AIDS care and support will increase considerably over the next decade, as each year approximately 20 000 people will develop AIDS and die unless expanded interventions are available. The limited resources of the Cambodian health care system will be further stretched due to this impact of HIV/AIDS on care needs. The presence of such a large number of HIV infections in the population creates an inescapable increase in demand for health care. Download this publication |
| A growing, global movement of people living with HIV/AIDS and their advocates, civil society organizations, health professionals, philanthropic foundations, international agencies, governments and private corporations is now working to reverse this injustice. The efforts of this move- ment have helped to shape a global consensus that allowing millions of deaths from a treatable disease is intolerable and that prevention strategies alone are insufficient to contain the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Treatment and care are therefore the crucial, missing link in the global response because, by alleviating suffering, reducing stigma and mitigating the economic and social impact of disease, they can reinforce the fight against HIV/AIDS. Download this publication |
| Less than a decade ago, someone living with HIV/AIDS had little hope.HIV infection brought a steady inexorable decline towards the complete destruction of the immune system and death. The introduction of ARVs in 1996 was a turning point for hundreds of thousands of people with access to sophisticated health care systems. Although they cannot cure HIV/AIDS, antiretrovirals (ARVs) have dramatically reduced mortality and morbidity, prolonged lives, and improved the quality of life of many people living with HIV/AIDS. Download this publication |
| The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report as “Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles,” in 1981. Since then, AIDS has become the most devastating disease that mankind has ever faced. Download this publication |
| Recent advances in the knowledge of HIV pathogenesis, the rapid development of potent antiretroviral agents coupled with the availability of more sensitive laboratory tools such as the viral load assays have greatly altered the management of HIV-infected patients. Guidelines for the use of the increasingly complex armamentarium of antiretroviral agents, including new classes of drugs, have been published in many parts of the developed world. Download this publication |
| Opportunistic diseases in a person with HIV are the products of two things: the person’s lack of immune defences caused by the virus, and the presence of microbes and other pathogens in our everyday environment. Download this publication |
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