“That Government provides free HIV testing services and free
ARVs for every HIV positive woman in the reproductive age as a strategy to secure
an AIDS free generation and also does scale up the accessibility to family
planning services throughout the country.”COMMENT:
New science also shows that HIV treatment is HIV prevention.
More ambitious efforts to initiate HIV
treatment for pregnant women and women of reproductive age is a strategy that
would dramatically reduce incidence of paediatric HIV and
infant mortality; save the lives of pregnant mothers; and slash rates of HIV
transmission through sex and through pregnancy, delivery and breastfeeding.
Studies also indicate accelerated
treatment scale up would most likely be cost saving
due to reductions in incidence. WHAT DO WE THINK?
due to reductions in incidence. WHAT DO WE THINK?
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