HIV treatment a failure

The world has not done enough to prevent the spread of HIV and million of deaths from preventable disease are a failure. Aids society menbers said about eleven thousand people were still contracting Hiv each day despite the huge advances knowledge of and treatments for the virus. He said less than a third of those living with HIV in low and middle income countries were treated with life saving medication and even fewer could access proven prevention methods such as condoms and clean syringes.

Science has given us the tools to prevent and treat HIV and the facts that we have not yet translated this science into practice is a shameful failure on the parts of the global community. The conference was attended by more than fivr thousand delegates to discuss cutting edge treatment for HIV, including two new classes of drugs that could hope to those who have developed a resistance to existing retroviral drugs.