New HIV infections outpace treatment

Source: By MERAIAH FOLEY, Associated Press Writer

SYDNEY, Australia - Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.

Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world were receiving the anti-retroviral drugs that help treat the virus. Last year, 2.2 million people in developing countries received the drugs, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"However, for every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," Fauci told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

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"The HIV epidemic is essentially uncontrolled, uncontrolled in Africa, uncontrolled completely in Asia right now," he told reporters at the conference, which has drawn 5,000 delegates from 133 countries. "The epidemic still is in an exponential growth phase ... and I think that is likely to continue."

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If they really wanted to improve the tiniest bit in our world,
they wouldn't throw money in the war-trashcan and to greedy
corporations (including criminal pharmaceutical corporations)
but instead give a lot of money to nonprofit organizations who
work to avoid HIV infections.

Instead, look what the criminal gang of Bush and his fascist henchmen
have done in the last few years: They wasted over half a billion dollars
for a fascist war against the Iraqi people and still keep on killing
innocent Iraqis by the hundreds with tax money.

It's incredible!

in the first place.

Ultimately that's what it comes down to. Republicanism is a sociopathic personality flaw.

:hi: and welcome to the DU and I agree with you!

:dem:

I thought abstinence-only education was working! How on earth can people be getting HIV if
they're not having sex???

more land opens up -- and less trouble taking it. -- or the resourses at least.