By 2020 the country could almost completely eliminate the cases of HIV infection.
Australia ended the AIDS epidemic, and by 2020 the country could almost completely eliminate the cases of HIV infection. About the same time, doctors reported in the Bulletin, published on the eve of the XXI International AIDS conference, which opens Sunday, 17 July 2016, in Durban (South Africa).
Currently in Australia, as noted in the newsletter are registered each year about a thousand new HIV patients. This, according to the world health organization (who), is a threshold parameter, fixing the termination in the country of the epidemic of HIV infection. In turn, according to the doctors, reducing HIV transmission, together with effective antiviral therapy will lead to 2020 the exclusion of deaths from AIDS in Australia.
The success in preventing the spread of HIV in Australia have been associated with a preexposure vaccination program of preventive measures and effective antiviral therapy. The first involves work with risk groups (homosexuals, drug addicts and sex workers), as well as the introduction of special educational programmes in schools, Universities and medical institutions. The second is a timely and modern antiviral therapy.
Australian scientists say that the complete disappearance of HIV in the country is impossible, because there is always a risk of any virus citizens of countries with high levels of morbidity. Stop the spread of HIV will make Australia, along with Denmark, one of the world leaders in the fight against this disease.
By 2014, according to the who, approximately 37 million people worldwide were infected with HIV, and 34 million have died from causes related to the disease. By this time the virus killed annually about 1.5 million people and about 2.2 million have become carriers of the virus. Antiviral therapy get less than half of cases.
In 2014, Russia has registered more than 92 million new cases of HIV, which is 12 percent more than in 2013. In October 2015, the Minister of health Veronika Skvortsova said that by 2020 the HIV epidemic in Russia could spiral out of control. In January 2016 the number of HIV-infected people in Russia exceeded one million, which is comparable to the number of cases in the rest of Europe, and indicates the possibility of a pandemic.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes slowly developing disease that affects the immune system, causing the body is unable to protect himself from the harmless to the healthy individual infections. The disease is not amenable to complete cure, however, modern antiviral therapy can minimize the development of HIV infection, the final and irreversible stage of which is AIDS.
