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East African Business Week<\/a> (Kampala)<\/p>\n

Mary Dutki<\/p>\n

6 June 2011<\/p>\n

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A plan to eliminate HIV and AIDS using antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) within the next 30 years has been unveiled by scientists from the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis (SACEMA).<\/p>\n

The plan which was unveiled last month in San Diego, California at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science proposes the aggressive use of blanket HIV testing followed with ARVs for all individuals testing positive for HIV.<\/p>\n

With 33.4 million people living with HIV\/AIDS in 2008, 2.7 million new HIV infections and 2 million deaths due to AIDS within the same year, scientists are turning their focus on antiretroviral therapy which they consider to be the only real success so far in HIV prevention. Antiretroviral therapy lowers the amount of the HIV virus in the blood to levels that render HIV positive individuals virtually non-infectious.<\/p>\n

The scientists argue that antiretroviral treatment has so far been given too late in the course of many individuals’ lives and thus treatment has not helped in reducing transmission rates.<\/p>\n

This time however they are suggesting early testing and treatment, targeting the most sexually active population.<\/p>\n

This plan is based on a mathematical modelling. The model developed assumes a population of very high prevalence which is tested once a year and those found HIV positive started on ARVs immediately; with this early antiretroviral intervention, the model shows that in three decades the new infections would be reduced sufficiently to eliminate the epidemic.<\/p>\n

Although the cost of this program is expected to be very high, costing up to 3 billion US dollars to South Africa alone, the scientists argue that the cost would approximately be the same over a 40 year period whether or not the new intervention were adopted.<\/p>\n

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