Thursday News

May 27, 2010
AIDS awareness

On May 27, 2010 a press release was published about the recent concerns of the lack of funding for HIV/AIDS treatment for Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Donor Nations have been pulling back on funding, leaving the doctors with the difficult decision of who should be treated with anti-retrovirals (ARV's), the medicine helps fight the retrovirus that is, HIV. The decision for who is getting treatment is based on length of time infected, severity of the infection and if they are pregnant or children. If the funding doesn't increase it will put MSF in a difficult position of losing the progress that has been made recently with the fight against the spread of AIDS.

The doctors and workers involved with this effort are saying that now is "No Time to Quit". Now more than ever, with the medical progress that has been made and the increasing availability (and decreased price of ARV's), is the time to be increasing funding so as to reach as many infected people as possible.

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