Rapid treatment of all infected people with antiretroviral drugs will save millions of aion kinah lives. But it will also be able to prevent further spread of HIV by reducing transmission risk, according to Brian Williams of the South African research SACEMA in Stellenbosch.
Such a program would be costly in the beginning, with an annual expenditure of just under 18 billion only in South Africa, but will quickly pay off, “said Williams, according to the British newspaper The Times.
Among other things, the economic damage effects AIDS epidemic causes, slow down.
While efforts to find a vaccine continues, is comprehensive testing and treatment the most effective way to gain control of the epidemic, he said.
Worldwide, 33 million people hit by the epidemic, which cost around 2.1 million people their lives each year.
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