International conference calls for better prevention to contain spread of AIDS

doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.490440.DB

BMJ 2008;336:1333 (14 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39608.490440.DB

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International conference calls for better prevention to contain spread of AIDS

Henry Wasswa

¹ Kampala

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Three million people in poor and middle income countries weretaking drugs to treat AIDS at the end of 2007, a conferenceof 1700 doctors and health experts in Kampala heard last week.

The 2008 HIV/AIDS Implementers’ Meeting also heard thatthe world population of people with HIV fell from 39.5 to 33.2million between 2006 and 2007. The number of newly infectedpeople in 2007 was 2.5 million, down from 3.2 million in 1998.

These figures were in a report produced jointly by the WorldHealth Organization, UNAIDS, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

But delegates at the meeting thought that these achievementscould not be sustained unless more emphasis was put on programmesthat concentrate on reducing the spread of AIDS.

They emphasised that prevention programmes in sub-Saharan Africaneeded to be reignited. AIDS in this region accounts for 68%of all adults with . . . [Full text of this article]

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