Adherence, treatment success and antiretroviral drug resistance

The pilot project is being carried out in six countries Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia.

A cross sectional study of patients in treatment at public HIV clinics in Rio de Janeiro showed rates of response and adherence to ART comparable to reports from developed countries.4,5 Primary HIV 1 drug resistance has remained low in Brazil.6 This experience has been echoed in Côte d'Ivoire and Uganda, where ART was introduced soon after the advent of triple therapy , through the Accelerating Access Initiative.7

In Asia, Thailand is initiating antiretroviral therapy for an additional 3,000 individuals each month, while access to antiretroviral therapy in Cambodia has increased tenfold since 2003.

This is crucial for facilitating children's access to antiretroviral therapy and treatment of opportunistic infections.

This region now has well over 700 sites that can deliver ART.

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While prices for antiretroviral treatment have substantially declined, the average annual 300 price tag for first line antiretroviral regimens still inhibits broader access.

By 2010, more than six million people in developing countries were receiving antiretroviral treatment.

Botswana, Namibia and Uganda now provide antiretroviral therapy to more than one quarter of those who need it.

Recommendations for success In January 2009, a review article was published in Expert Reviews in Anticancer Therapy (Vol 9, 1, pages 67 74) which highlighted past program failures and made recommendations for success as follows 1.

In Burundi, for example, most people receive antiretroviral drugs through community based organizations.

In several countries in Latin America, AIDS mortality has declined since the expansion of antiretroviral treatment programmes.

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It was mentioned that drug abusers who were HIV positive needed to have access to antiretroviral treatment.

Access to antiretroviral treatment has become an international priority, although preventing and addressing paediatric AIDS remain a major challenge.

The survival rates of patients on antiretroviral therapy in low and middle income countries are 90 per cent one year after initiating treatment and approximately 80 per cent after two years.

Many more will be needed beyond 2005 in order to achieve the objective of universal access to ART.

(d) Integrate HIV prevention, home based care, psychosocial services, treatment support, treatment of opportunistic infections and food and nutritional support with antiretroviral therapy as components of comprehensive AIDS care

Targeted therapy Targeted therapy, according to the National Cancer Institute, is a type of treatment that uses drugs or other substances, such as monoclonal antibodies, to identify and attack specific cancer cells without harming normal cells.

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In some countries, WFP is already providing nutritional support to AIDS patients, but few programmes so far are reaching people receiving ART.

In East and South Asia, treatment coverage has also improved 100,000 people were receiving ART by the end of 2004, twice the number reported six months previously.

It also consists in proving the absence of resistance of viruses in treatment antiviral by viral genome sequencing to adapt antiviral therapeutics at best.

(e) Injecting drug users living with HIV AIDS needed to be included in programmes providing access to antiretroviral treatment.

In developing countries, fewer that 10 per cent of HIV infected pregnant women have access to antiretroviral preventive treatment.

Training to provide ART also strengthens the health system, as limited human resources are used optimally and different types of care are integrated.

3 To place 3 million people living with AIDS in developing countries and countries with economies in transition on antiretroviral treatment by 2005.

Thailand's programme has been notably successful, expanding treatment access to all districts, with more than 900 ART facilities and more than 3,000 people starting treatment every month.

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Helping countries to develop efficient procurement and supply management is not only critical to scaling up ART, but also strengthens capacity to provide treatment for other chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension.

Achieving and sustaining broad access to antiretroviral therapy will require further declines in the prices of both first and second line treatments and of diagnostic and monitoring technology, which remains prohibitively expensive in many parts of the world.

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DREAM demands that western standards be adopted in Africa too the programme routinely uses viral load assessment, and has introduced Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy (HAART)

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