Posted on 07/23/2007 9:00:26 AM PDT by yankeedame
Last Updated: Monday, 23 July 2007, 14:14 GMT 15:14 UK
Dr Fauci says there must be greater
effort to boost prevention
US President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus. Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treated.
"For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," he said.
Dr Fauci was speaking at a gathering of the world's leading HIV/Aids experts.
Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world had access to the anti-retroviral drugs that help treat the deadly virus.
Last year, the figure had risen to 2.2 million, but new infections continue to outpace the global effort to treat and educate patients.
The HIV epidemic is essentially uncontrolled, uncontrolled in Africa, uncontrolled completely in Asia right now
Dr Brian Gazzard, British HIV Association "Although we are making major improvements in the access to drugs, clearly prevention must be addressed in a very forceful way," said Dr Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
But in many parts of the developing world, effective prevention strategies like condoms and sterile syringes are available to less than 15% of the population.
"The proven prevention modalities are not accessible to any substantial proportion of the people who need them," Dr Fauci said.
Declaration plan
Dr Fauci's warning was echoed by Dr Brian Gazzard, of the British HIV Association, who said that while advances were being made in extending access to anti-retroviral drugs, the disease was running out of control in parts of Asia and Africa.
"The HIV epidemic is essentially uncontrolled, uncontrolled in Africa, uncontrolled completely in Asia right now," he said.
Only a quarter of the people needing treatment were receiving it, meaning the other three-quarters would continue to spread the epidemic, which was still in its exponential growth stage, Dr Gazzard said.
The Australian conference's 5,000 delegates are drawn from more than 130 countries.
Participants at the forum are being urged to sign a declaration, aimed at boosting HIV research, which proposes that HIV programmes should devote at least 10% of spending on research.
The so-called Sydney Declaration's central message is that governments need to dedicate more resources to HIV research if the world is to effectively combat the Aids pandemic.
The document says this will help speed up the implementation of new drugs and technologies to prevent, diagnose and treat an infection which has already killed 25 million people.
Remember cancer? it’s the disease that kills millions more than aids. How we faring in that fight?
Natural selection?
Yeah? And what about cancer? I’ve lost track of the number of family and friends who have died of cancer. Don’t know one person, personally, with aids.
I went to a funeral for an 18-year old girl that died of lymphoma. Took her in only 8 months. It was one of the saddest funerals I've been to.
AIDS will continue to be a horror until people who have it and know they have it, won’t stop themselves from passing it on to others.
The idea of an out of control HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is a myth. Either Fauci knows this and he's a liar, or he's totally unfamiliar with the Bangui Conference and its "Definition", which is even more frightening.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
How about 1 man 1 woman monagamous marriage? That's avalable to everyone. But wait, that would be the western, judeo-christian way. Can't have that, it would be cultural imperialism.
Must be part of Ted Turners' global population reduction plan. Clearly they want millions of people to die.
They would rather have them die, than tell them their culture must change. Just like here.
er, that is: AIDS will continue until people stop passing it on. Abstinence works every time it is tried.
Aids is sometimes called cancer on death certificates. One of my neighbors died of Aids but his family said it was cancer. Those who knew him, knew it was really aids. He was part of the Fire Island gay crowd.
What a load of horse pucky
A friend I knew from elementary school who turned homosexual died a couple years ago at a fairly young age of some sort of visceral cancer. A friend of my wife’s from high school whom we strongly suspected of turning homosexual died a few years ago at a fairly young age of brain cancer.
Now, out of the only two homosexuals we knew well enough to call friends, both died young of cancer. It could be a coincidence, or perhaps there is something in the gay lifestyle that weakens the body’s defenses against cancer?
It's cruel, and hard hearted, and non-pc to say so, though.
All of the effective "prevention modalities" are available to everyone.
Poop?
Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!
And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)
Well I’m gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There’s a hero inside of all of us
I’ll make them see everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog ‘ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C’mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20
The answer is obvious. The Democrats already showed us what to do:
Surrender to the AIDS virus. "Redeploy" our resourses elsewhere, where they may be better spent on more important things at home.
Well, when your “sex education” programs tell people to go ahead and have sex so long as a you use a condom, then you can expect the AIDS infection rate (and those for other STDs) to go up. It’s called “common sense”.
Aren't all "progressives" always going on about overpopulation and the need to murder our children for the common good?
They should be happy but they want our money, so they talk the talk.
I fail to see how "don't have sex until you're in a stable, monogamous relationship with someone else who is clean" is inaccessible to anyone.
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