Access to HIV Treatment in Developing Countries (2)
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Madeleine Anne Decker
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WHO/UNAIDS Press release
Access to HIV treatment continues to accelerate in developing
countries, but bottlenecks persist, says WHO/UNAIDS report
The number of people receiving combination antiretroviral ther-
apy (ART) for HIV/AIDS in developing countries is increasing
significantly � more than doubling from 400 000 in December 2003
to approximately one million in June 2005 � according to a new
report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and
the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). How-
ever, access to HIV treatment continues to fall short of the
growing need, and overall progress is unlikely to be fast enough
to reach the target set by WHO and UNAIDS of treating three mil-
lion people by the end of 2005.
The WHO/UNAIDS report shows that the number of people receiving
ART is increasing in every region of the world, and the rate of
scale-up is also accelerating. In sub-Saharan Africa, the region
most severely affected by HIV, approximately 500,000 people are
currently receiving ART � more than triple the number of people
on ART in June 2004, and nearly double the number just six
months ago. Similarly, in Asia -- the second most affected re-
gion -- the number of people with access to ART has tripled
since June 2004 to approximately 155,000 today. More than 50% of
this increase occurred in the first six months of this year.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr30/en/index.html
Document - 3 by 5 progress report
June 2005
The WHO/UNAIDS report identifies the factors that have helped
some countries to achieve important advances in access to ART,
as well as the bottlenecks that have slowed progress in many ar-
eas. The progress made to date has been possible as a result of
the concerted efforts of many countries and donors with techni-
cal assistance from UNAIDS, WHO and other partners. The report
provides a series of recommendations to increase progress in
treatment scale-up, including adopting simplified and standard-
ized treatment approaches that can maximize the number of people
receiving quality ART, and help strengthen overall health sys-
tems capacity.
http://www.who.int/3by5/fullreportJune2005.pdf (1.5 MB)