Antiretroviral
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There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of
antiretroviral
medicines, and make them available in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000 dollars per patient per year to 350 dollars per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is available for 60 dollars per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
Treatment programs became possible, funding became available, and the number of people on
antiretroviral
drugs started to increase very rapidly.
Today, eight million people have access to
antiretroviral
drugs.
Here you see the patent practices before the World Trade Organization's rules, before '95, before
antiretroviral
drugs.
He has access to
antiretroviral
drugs.
When I first met Celine, a little over a year ago, she had gone for 18 months without any
antiretroviral
therapy, and she was very ill.
Now during the clinical trial, she'd been given all her
antiretroviral
drugs free of charge, and her transportation costs had been covered by the research funds.
Since the year 2000, since the turn of the millennium, there are eight million more AIDS patients getting life-saving
antiretroviral
drugs.
And the Global Fund provides
antiretroviral
drugs that stop mothers from passing HIV to their kids.
It didn't work very well for cancer, but became the first successful antiretroviral, and you can see from the table there are others as well.
So, for instance, there's a doctor in Africa that's found that if you give a mother
antiretroviral
drugs at 24 weeks, when she's pregnant, that the baby will not have HIV when it's born.
For instance, we're setting up clinics in Africa where we're going to be giving free
antiretroviral
drugs, free TB treatment and free malaria treatment.
But we know that
antiretroviral
therapy can virtually guarantee that she will not transmit the virus to the baby.
With
antiretroviral
therapy, most HIV-positive people can expect to live long and healthy lives, and are much less likely to infect others.
Now, funnily enough, this is also Joseph after six months on
antiretroviral
treatment.
We need to expand
antiretroviral
treatment as much as we can.
He killed 400,000 of his people by insisting that beetroot, garlic and lemon oil were much more effective than the
antiretroviral
drugs we know can slow the course of AIDS.
The AIDS crisis, for example, called forth tens of billions of dollars for research and development – and similarly substantial commitments by the pharmaceutical industry – to produce lifesaving
antiretroviral
drugs at global scale.
They announced that the therapy they were testing, an
antiretroviral
drug called Truvada, had proved effective enough to end the randomized phases of the trials, and that they were offering the pill to all of the studies’ participants.
This is further evidence of the effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a technique by which people who are HIV-negative use
antiretroviral
drugs to protect themselves from infection.
They designed
antiretroviral
drugs that have made it possible for HIV infection to be a survivable chronic condition.
“It is very hard to take the
antiretroviral
drugs without having any food in the stomach and when I am worrying about where I am going to live,” she said.
The key reason that the epidemic can be ended is a scientific finding back in 2011 that showed that HIV-positive individuals receiving
antiretroviral
(ARV) treatment suppress the HIV virus in their bloodstreams so dramatically that they are very unlikely to transmit the virus to others through sex or shared needles.
With Global Fund support for our national institutions, we have achieved universal access to lifesaving
antiretroviral
therapy for people living with HIV, and we have stabilized HIV prevalence at around 3% of the population.
That line of thinking brings to mind one of the most abhorrent arguments against making HIV medicines affordable for patients in lower-income countries: People in Africa have no watches, so they will not be able to take their
antiretroviral
medicine three times a day.
The truth, as researchers have shown, is that Africans are perfectly capable of reliably adhering to
antiretroviral
therapy – often more so than North Americans.
Pharmaceutical companies have been reluctant to make the
antiretroviral
medications used to treat HIV/AIDS available in a cost-effective manner for public-health use.
Under FHC, Brazil pioneered an effective response to the AIDS epidemic by guaranteeing access to
antiretroviral
medicines and to widespread counseling and viral testing.
Then she gets
antiretroviral
drugs and you see a metamorphosis.
But without them, the stream of new
antiretroviral
products used to fight AIDS would not have flowed, because the incentives for developing new drugs would be lacking.
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