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Subject: [wa-afr] [unioNews] Chicago Forum Proposes HIV/Aids Blueprint for
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Thema: [unioNews] Chicago Forum Proposes HIV/Aids Blueprint for Africa
Datum: 15.02.01 17:17:06 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit
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Chicago Forum Proposes HIV/Aids Blueprint for Africa
AIDS specialists, economists and other scientists and policymakers meeting in
Chicago have proposed a "blueprint" to treat people with HIV/AIDS in African
nations hardest-hit by the disease, the Boston Globe newspaper reported.
The plan, developed last week in "side sessions" at the 8th Conference on
Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Chicago, and in a private
meeting of AIDS doctors and economists at Harvard University, calls on
wealthy countries to cover the cost of anti-AIDS drugs for the developing
world.
The blueprint also calls for the negotiation of the price of anti-retroviral
drug combinations down to 500 US dollars a year per patient.
It further proposes the selection of two successful African countries and
more than a dozen small projects as models to be swiftly copied across the
continent.
The plan recommends that individuals with symptomatic AIDS (10 per cent of
the 25 million HIV-infected people in Africa) be initially targeted.
It also advocates the "piggybacking" of HIV treatment onto existing
tuberculosis-control programmes.
Critics of the blueprint, however, note that most African nations lack the
health infrastructures needed to successfully distribute medication to those
in need.
They thus fear that in the event of irregular distribution and administration
of medication, the programme could wind up promoting drug-resistant strains
of HIV.
They further feared that obtaining funding from some western governments
could prove difficult.
But supporters of the plan believe their cause will be assisted by "growing
public awareness in the West of the scope and crisis as well as by a
perception by policymakers that the epidemic is becoming a potential threat
to national security."
Organisers are aiming to present the plan before an AIDS summit for by
African leaders billed for April, as well as at the meeting of the G7
industrialised countries coming up in Italy later in the year.
UNAIDS senior adviser Stephen Lewis hailed the move as timely, saying that
"if it can be crystallised concretely, realistically, and sealed in tough
negotiations with wealthy nations, then [the organisers] can have a major
impact."
PanAfrican News Agency * February 15, 2001 * Dakar / SENEGAL
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