The World Health Organization (WHO) tackles to the AIDS virus, a scourge that affects millions of people around the world every year, by offering new recommendations. In 2010 alone, according to WHO figures, 2.7 people were infected. Currently, 34 million people around the world are living with AIDS.
WHO experts want antiretroviral treatment to be offered at an earlier stage. “Recent evidence indicates that this kind of treatment administered earlier helps people living with HIV live longer and healthier and substantially reduces the risk of transmitting this virus to other people”, explain the specialists in a press release. hurry.
Avoid 3 million deaths
Today, this treatment is a combination of three antiretroviral drugs in the form of a single pill, taken once a day. Thanks to this recommendation, access to the drug should be extended to more than 26 million HIV-positive people, or 9.3 million more than with the old method.
WHO also advocates access to treatment for “all children living with HIV under the age of 5, at all pregnant or breastfeeding women carriers and to all HIV-positive partners when one partner is not infected. “
Despite the existence of certain difficulties such as the increase in the number of infected people among adults, legal and cultural obstacles and the high proportion of patients who drop out of treatment, the WHO declares that “this new approach could prevent 3 million deaths and prevent 3.5 million new HIV infections between now and 2025. “
