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HIV/AIDS: Access to Treatment
At the current trend, AIDS will
kill more people this decade than all wars and disasters in
the last 50 years. This is inspite of the development of anti-retroviral
drugs that have dramatically reduced AIDS deaths in industrialized
countries.
Treatment for AIDS includes monitoring of disease progression,
psychosocial support, provision of adequate nutrition, teaching
healthy living and survival skills, prophylaxis and treatment
of opportunistic infections, and antiretroviral treatment.
Such holistic treatment can now be provided at an all-inclusive
cost of about CHF 1000 per year. Yet most African countries
and donors still judge this amount to be too costly and, as
a consequence, the great majority of those urgently requiring
access to treatment are dying with out it.
The International Federation is taking action along two parallel
lines:
a) contributing through advocacy and service delivery to making
HIV treatment affordable and accessible to those who need it.
Find out more about work in
this area
b) creation of the Masambo Fund
so that Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers have
access to life-saving drugs.
Find out more about the Masambo
Fund and how you can help
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