Experts warn return of AIDS

Despite achievements in the treatment of the disease, experts say that the deadly virus continues to spread and pose a serious threat, especially in the communities that are difficult to achieve:

The face of AIDS has changed in the last three decades. Now it is impossible to identify people affected by the disease. Treatments have advanced greatly, allowing people infected with what was once viewed as the death penalty, to have a normal and productive life. Even people at risk of contracting the virus can now take the drug called pre - disease exposure, February PrEP, so that they are not affected by HIV. This drug is the latest weapon of growing medical arsenal against AIDS.

This drug is the most recent means of prevention we've ever had in our search for years and what we're seeing today is that if you combine treatments so that people who live with the virus can be treated and then, people who are in danger of taking the PrEP drug, the HIV epidemic can be brought under control. Dr. Chris Beirer, researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

Over the past year, the AIDS epidemic has claimed an estimated one million lives, and experts predict that by 2030, 100 million people will be infected with HIV.

What are the reasons? The complacency of the results caused funds for research and treatment of the disease to be reduced, making contact with people who are endangered from the virus difficult. Other factors are stigmam for the disease and reduced government interest.

When we talk to the finance ministers, they always tell me “We knew the HIV virus was gone, that we're not seeing anyone die. ”- says Dr. Deborah Birx, co-ordinator of the U.S. Global AIDS.

The number of new infections has dropped, compared to 3 million and a half million a year, but there are a little under 2 million left. Some 17 million people infected with HIV can't have access, such as gay men, drug users, sex workers and their clients, as well as transformers.

“This part of the population and young girls make up over 50 percent of the newly infected and contact with them is very difficult. ”- says J. Stephen Morrison, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Morrison, Birx and Beirer discussed the challenges of ending SIDE at the International AIDS Conference in July.

Our work with AIDS is not over. It is too early to declare victory, and the danger of restoring the epidemic is real. Dr. Beyer.

The National Institute of Health announced the creation of an international programme for finding ways to reduce SIDA-related stigma to treat a greater number of people. The agency found that in the United States, the largest number of people infected with SIDAs and untreated are among the poor and in hispanic communities. The agency said that closing the gap in human treatment is critical to ending SIDE in the United States. / VoA