NEARLY THREE MILLION HIV-POSITIVE PEOPLE NOW RECEIVING LIFE-SAVING DRUGS BUT ACCESS TO PREVENTION AND TREATMENT STILL LACKING FOR MILLIONS

摘要

Other obstacles to treatment scale-up include poor patient retention rates in many treatment programmes and the considerable numbers of individuals who remain unaware of their HIV status, or are diagnosed too late and die in the first six months of treatment.Tuberculosis is a leading cause of death among HIV infected people worldwide, and the number one cause of death among those living in Africa. To date, HIV and TB service delivery is insufficiently integrated and too many people are losing their lives because they are unable to either prevent TB or access life-saving medications for both diseases.