The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: thinking ahead on programmatic tasks and related operational research

Until now, we have all been desperately trying to run behind the HIV/AIDS epidemic and catch up with it, but despite all our efforts, the epidemic remains well ahead of us. In 2010, the antiretroviral treatment (ART) gap was about 60%, AIDS-related deaths were almost two million a year, and on top o...

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Autores principales: Zachariah, Rony, Van Damme, Wim, Arendt, Vic, Schmit, Jean Claude, Harries, Anthony D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The International AIDS Society 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21967983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-14-S1-S7
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author Zachariah, Rony
Van Damme, Wim
Arendt, Vic
Schmit, Jean Claude
Harries, Anthony D
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description Until now, we have all been desperately trying to run behind the HIV/AIDS epidemic and catch up with it, but despite all our efforts, the epidemic remains well ahead of us. In 2010, the antiretroviral treatment (ART) gap was about 60%, AIDS-related deaths were almost two million a year, and on top of these figures, for every one person started on ART, there were two new HIV infections. What is needed to change this situation is to think ahead of the epidemic in terms of the programmatic tasks we will be faced with and try to act boldly in trying to implement those tasks. From a programmatic perspective, we: a) highlight what needs to fundamentally change in our thinking and overall approach to the epidemic; and b) outline a number of key task areas for implementation and related operational research.
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spelling pubmed-31941522011-10-17 The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: thinking ahead on programmatic tasks and related operational research Zachariah, Rony Van Damme, Wim Arendt, Vic Schmit, Jean Claude Harries, Anthony D J Int AIDS Soc Debate Until now, we have all been desperately trying to run behind the HIV/AIDS epidemic and catch up with it, but despite all our efforts, the epidemic remains well ahead of us. In 2010, the antiretroviral treatment (ART) gap was about 60%, AIDS-related deaths were almost two million a year, and on top of these figures, for every one person started on ART, there were two new HIV infections. What is needed to change this situation is to think ahead of the epidemic in terms of the programmatic tasks we will be faced with and try to act boldly in trying to implement those tasks. From a programmatic perspective, we: a) highlight what needs to fundamentally change in our thinking and overall approach to the epidemic; and b) outline a number of key task areas for implementation and related operational research. The International AIDS Society 2011-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3194152/ /pubmed/21967983 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2652-14-S1-S7 Text en Copyright ©2011 Zachariah et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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