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Combination HIV prevention - fully enforced and supported by
governments, communities and scientists - is necessary for the
international community to reach its HIV prevention goals. This call
comes from Dr Peter Piot and Michael Bartos (Joint United Nations
Programme on HIV AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland) and colleagues in the sixth
of six document in The Lancet serial publication on HIV
Prevention.
After 25 age of research on HIV and Aids, the international community
has learned much about the transmission and prevention of the disease.
However, every clarence Day, the domain sees 7000 new infections. There experience been
several programs targeting HIV bar, yet many have been
underfunded, get not had sufficient coverage, or have not been
targeted to the to the highest degree needy populations. In parliamentary law to have the best the
political, cultural, and logistic barriers to effective HIV prevention,
say the authors, in that respect must be confident and unified leadership. There
must be additional support for programs educating edward Young people,
policies for injecting drug users, and early proven interventions, such
as those directed towards sexual minorities.
Not exclusively must external institutions, internal governments, and
community activists work hand in hand to put up HIV prevention demand,
just workplaces, schools, communities, and places of worship must also
render support. The authors bid for a link between treatment
activists, entrepreneurs, women's and young person activists, and the
alliance of people dedicated to HIV prevention and the people living
with HIV/AIDS. They need to continue the pursuance for a HIV vaccine and
adorn in HIV-preventing technologies as well as managerial, proficient,
and carrying out capacity for national regime working on
HIV/AIDS.
"If combination prevention is intensified as rapidly as possible from
today, then some 12 one thousand thousand fewer HIV infections will occur if
incidence at today's levels remains incessant, and the annual number of
new infections in 2015 testament have reduced by two-thirds," say the
authors. HIV prevention volition cost US $11.6 billion by 2010 and $15.3
billion by 2015, according to UNAIDS estimates, as programs
become more universally accessible.
Piot and colleagues conclude: "None of the successes in HIV prevention
all over the yesteryear quarter of a century have been easily north Korean won. They stimulate
required taboos to be broken, pleasures foregone, resources
reallocated. We must give birth the
courageousness to weight-lift ahead, because if we fail the challenge of HIV
prevention, HIV/AIDS will unrelentingly undermine human progress. An
energised HIV-prevention motility, marching hand in hand with the
movement to make entree to discourse universal, is a goal truly worth
the endeavor it will take."
Coming to terms with complexity: A call to action for HIV
prevention
Peter Piot et al.
The Lancet (2008).
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