A generation has passed since the world has witnessed the peak in AIDS deaths. Those painful deaths, from diseases or infections that the body may fight in another way – sent their loved ones to the streets, which presses governments to act. The United States eventually did, as it created PePfar, it can be said that the most successful external aid program in history. HIV, which causes AIDS, can now be controlled, although there is no treatment.
Now the Trump administration has put the brakes on external aid while claiming it wasted, causing chaos in the system that has kept more than 20 years alive. Confusion about a temporary waiver of PePfar – and the difficulty of its re -action, with American workers, contractors and payments in the turmoil – means that the watch beats for many who cannot suddenly get medications to keep AIDS.
The United States -led global response to HIV has been so effective that the AIDS wings it waste is a vision of the past. Now, health experts, patients, and others are afraid of those days that it will return if the Trump administration does not reflect the path or there are no other global power steps to the void, quickly.
“In the next five years, we can have 6.3 million deaths related to AIDS,” the United Nations AIDS told Associated Press. This is a shock at a time that fits with self -satisfaction with HIV, refusing to use a condom between some young people and the rise of the drug that some believe can end for good.
The agency has started tracking new HIV injuries since the freezing of aid.
Here is a look at what happens to the body when HIV drugs are stopped:
The collapse of the immune system
HIV is spread through physical fluids such as blood, breast milk or semen. It gradually weakens the body’s immune system and makes it vulnerable to diseases, including what is rarely seen in healthy people. The emergence of such amazing cases in the eighties is what health experts tend to know the AIDS epidemic.
Years of intense invitation, shocking scenes for children, youth and other pneumonia and other infections that created Pepfar have created the president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief. Twenty million people died all over the world before the foundation of the program. Now millions of people are taking drugs known as anti -virus that prevent HIV from spreading in the body.
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Stopping these medications allows the virus to start beating in the body again, and it may become a drug resistance. HIV can refresh to detected levels in people’s blood in just a few weeks, which endangers sexual partners. Children born to mothers with HIV mothers cannot escape infection unless the woman is treated properly during pregnancy or the infant is treated at the birth.
If the medications are not taken, the body is heading towards AIDS, the last stage of the infection.
Daily danger of germs
“Without treating HIV, people who suffer from AIDS usually survive about three years.”.
For a long time, there may not be noticeable symptoms. But anyone can easily spread HIV, and the immune system becomes vulnerable to the so -called opportunistic diseases.
The national health institutes say that opportunistic diseases include fungal infections, pneumonia, salmonella and tuberculosis. For a country like South Africa, with the largest number of virus virus cases in the world and one of the largest tuberculosis cases, the outcome can be enormous.
HIV therapy has not been verified, damage continues. The immune system is increasingly unable to fight diseases. Every action, from eating to travel, should be seen in possible exposure to germs.
For years, the importance of drug consumption was emphasized every day, even at the same time of the day, for people with HIV. Now the ability to follow this basic rule has been shaken.
Indeed, hundreds or thousands of US health partners have been demobilized in countries such as Kenya and Ethiopia, causing large -scale gaps in the HIV test, messages, care and support on the continent that Bippar helped. In some African clinics, people with HIV were removed.
The restoration of the effects of freezing the Trump administration’s external aid during a 90 -day review period, and an understanding of what is permitted under the assignment of PePfar, will take time that health experts say that many people do not have it.
Meanwhile, the head of the United Nations Agency Agency, Winnie Pianima, told AP that the disease breeds are more resistant to appear.
An additional 3.4 million children can be made – another resonance as the world raced to face AIDS with some of the tools on hand.
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