Three new HIV- AIDS this year in Kosovo

Three new cases affected by HIV/ AIDS, has been diagnosed this year at the Infectious Clinic at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo.

There are a total of over 30 cases to be affected with this virus in Kosovo. Those affected by this virus, the therapy they receive at the Infectious Clinic of the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo in Pristina.

Kosovo enters countries with low percentages of persons affected by HIV/ AIDS.

Globally, over the past year, about a million people have died from HIV-AIDS. Experts predict that by 2030, about 100 million people in the world will be infected with HIV.

In Kosovo since the first case diagnosis, about 50 people have died.

However, Alban Gjonbalaj, leader of the Kosovar Association of People living with HIV in Kosovo, says the situation of those affected with the HIV virus is improving over the years.

He also cites good news for Kosovars, noting that laboratory tests that have been sent to France for years to diagnose the virus are already under way in Kosovo.

The situation in Kosovo is improving. The lab tests are being done in here, and we've already sent them to France. The therapy is improving, and the number of drugs is expected to increase so that patients are available. There are new cases, although there are few. It is a continuation of the train, which is between 1 and 3 new persons diagnosed annually in Kosovo”, Gjonbalaj said.

Although he has retrovial therapy, which serves to treat HIV - positive people, the deficit remains in child therapy.

Izet Sadiku infectedlog told Radio Free Europe that there are three children in Kosovo who are submitted for therapy, but she is missing. Two of them have already left Kosovo.

Kosovo continues to be in the group of states that is part of low-prevales, despite what a trend of increasing numbers is observed. Since 2000, the number of diagnosed people has begun to increase, with 3 new cases new this year”.

And as far as therapy is concerned, all those who are estimated to receive, have it in the Infectious Clinic for free, and the clinic has been supplied all the time. One problem that has been following us for years is the lack of child therapy, lacking”, Sadiku said.

There have been two children who have been diagnosed at the Infectious Clinic, but who now live outside Kosovo and there receive therapy. Meanwhile, another child has been diagnosed this year, but body weight allows him to receive retroviral therapy - adult therapy - and he has continued to be treated”, Sadiku noted.

By 1986, when the first case was identified in Kosovo, according to clinical notes, with HIV/ AIDS, over 100 people have been infected.

However, one of the major donations that has supported the health system in Kosovo over the years is the Global Fund, where the focus has been on prevention, as well as dealing with HIV/ AIDS, and tuberculosis. For these diseases, between 5m euros and 5m euros are separated every five years