UNAIDS Urges Countries To Rapidly Scale Up Access To Antiretroviral Medicines To Maximize HIV Treatment And Prevention Gains The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has launched a new framework to accelerate action in reaching 15 million people with antiretroviral treatment by 2015 - the goal set by United Nations Member States in 2011. The framework, entitled Treatment 2015, offers countries and partners both practical and innovative ways to increase the number of people accessing antiretroviral medicines. These medicines will not only enable people living with HIV to live longer and healthier lives, they will also help prevent new HIV infections. The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé said that reaching the 2015 target will be a critical milestone , therefore countries and partners need to urgently and strategically invest resources and efforts to ensure that everyone has access to HIV prevention and treatment services. Treatment 2015 encourages countries to enhance public health programmes and leverage services provided by civil society and community based groups. It outlines that community health workers have the capacity to provide almost 40% of HIV service-related tasks and that HIV testing and treatment services need to be decentralized to promote easier access. The framework also underscores the need to ensure that underserved key populations have equitable access to HIV testing and treatment services. #Medicalnewstoday
Posted on: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:02:53 +0000
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