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Zambia and AIDS
Aug. 14th, 2006 07:36 am
AIDS Effort in Zambia Hailed as a Success
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, The New York Times, August 14, 2006
TORONTO, Aug. 13 — Rapid expansion of a large AIDS treatment program in Lusaka, Zambia, is working well and has saved many lives in its first two years, the program’s leaders reported Sunday at the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference here.
The report looked at the outcome for more than 25,000 patients who received antiretroviral drugs through the program, the largest group in a single program studied so far.
Only a few years ago, there was widespread skepticism that AIDS treatment programs would work in poor countries. The drugs were considered too costly and too hard to deliver to those who needed them; the required regimens were seen as too complicated and the side effects too dangerous.
But the effort has worked, the authors of the study said, as health workers have made intensive efforts to use in Zambia and other poor countries the same kinds of drugs and monitoring services that are standard in rich countries.
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By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, The New York Times, August 14, 2006
TORONTO, Aug. 13 — Rapid expansion of a large AIDS treatment program in Lusaka, Zambia, is working well and has saved many lives in its first two years, the program’s leaders reported Sunday at the opening of the 16th International AIDS Conference here.
The report looked at the outcome for more than 25,000 patients who received antiretroviral drugs through the program, the largest group in a single program studied so far.
Only a few years ago, there was widespread skepticism that AIDS treatment programs would work in poor countries. The drugs were considered too costly and too hard to deliver to those who needed them; the required regimens were seen as too complicated and the side effects too dangerous.
But the effort has worked, the authors of the study said, as health workers have made intensive efforts to use in Zambia and other poor countries the same kinds of drugs and monitoring services that are standard in rich countries.
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