AIDS Treatment and Eradication Scaling New Heights

AIDS treatment and eradication is one of the few goals that has the entire world working on it, boundaries and armies forgotten. Let's find out the latest on it.

Global awareness about AIDS has been the motto for several health organizations world over. This has not only helped prevent the disease from spreading like wild fire, but has also helped make the life of the victims a little bit better.

The advent of antiretroviral drugs for HIV (AIDS vaccines), coupled with continuing awareness programs, has doubled the number of people tested for HIV/ AIDS. This has been massively instrumental in treating the patients as well. Needless to say that this is indeed a testament to the global capability to work together on a cause.

A study from Stanford University, shows that the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, has succeeded at reducing the HIV death toll by 10.5 percent in just four years. That means that they have successfully averted 1.2 million deaths in targeted nations. "We are seeing dramatic returns from our investments in global health, and going forward we must build on current successes, like the response to HIV-AIDS, and expand the reach of health services globally", said Chris Collins, the Vice President and Director of public policy at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.