South Africa: Govt Moves to Earlier Aids Treatment
HIV-positive people in South Africa will be able to access antiretroviral sooner after the government raised the CD4 count necessary to access treatment. But some warn the victory is only half the battle.
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Participants at a grave in remembrance of those who have died of HIV/Aids.
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Beaded HIV/Aids ribbon.
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Large-scale earlier treatment also pose burdens for the health systems.
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Earlier treatment sounds better. This means less patients coming at end stage. This also gives people a chance for early action. It brings to mind the issue of missed opportunities even in prevention. The fiction book 'Homo Invitus' does have a point outside fiction on the issue of teaching prevention as early as nursing schools 'womb to the tomb'. The earlier the better. Let's give it as radical a re-think as this book suggests.