CMAAO Statement on World AIDS Day 2019: Ending the HIV Epidemic in Asia

November 26, 2019

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New Delhi, November 26, 2019:

A Plan for CMAAO Countries for reducing the incidence of HIV by 75% in 5 years, and by 90% by 2030.

·      Today, antiretroviral drugs combined into a single pill taken once a day can enable a person living with HIV to achieve a nearly normal lifespan.

·      Antiretrovirals can treat HIV, maintain the health of an individual, and prevent transmission of the virus.

·      People living with HIV when use antiretrovirals to achieve and maintain a durably undetectable level of virus, they do not sexually transmit HIV. This prevention strategy, is known as Undetectable = Untransmittable, or U=U.

·      Antiretrovirals in pregnant women living with HIV can prevent perinatal transmission of the virus.

·      ART is recommended for all HIV-infected pregnant women to decrease the rate of perinatal HIV transmission as well as to treat the mother.

·      For HIV-negative people at risk for HIV, taking a single pill daily as pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, can reduce the risk of acquiring HIV by 99%.

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·      Emergency post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, also can prevent HIV from becoming established in the body if begun within three days of exposure and taken for an additional 28 days.

·      NIH continue to pursue the development of a safe and effective vaccine to prevent HIV, and a cure for those living with HIV.

·      Ending the HIV Epidemic must take place “Community by Community.”

·      Ensure that hardly reached communities — including the transgender, black, gay, injection drug, and sex worker communities — benefit from these strategies.

·      Test and treat policy: ART (potent three rugs combination)  is recommended for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 cell count.

Dr KK Aggarwal

President CMAAO

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