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Access to treatment

Accelerating access to testing (pdf 108kb)

World Health Organization and UNAIDS launched the "3 by 5" initiative in early 2003 to focus on a measurable target of bringing 3 million people on treatment by the end of 2005. This paper examines the policy shift needed to provide access to testing and treatment and reach the target of the "3 by 5" initiative.

To fill this gap the GBC estimates that in 75 weeks following the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, an equivalent of 5,000 people will need to be brought onto treatment every day.

The 3 by 5 Initiative will not succeed without a dramatic scale up of access to testing and a clear signal from the pubic health community that HIV testing is strongly recommended. The challenge is enormous but attainable with increases in funding from donor governments, reductions in drug and diagnostic pricing, integration of public-private delivery of healthcare and overarching shifts in policy.

 

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