The World Health Organization is revising previous recommendations for the treatment of HIV. New guidelines advise immediate available treatment for all populations and ages - and removing the previous guideline limitations.
New research has shown that when Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, is treated immediately - longevity is increased and the transmission of the virus is decreased - according the United Nation's World Health Organization, WHO. The revolutionary findings have prompted WHO to revise guidelines that had limitations of eligibility for HIV treatment.
Previous guidelines only approved HIV treatment for people with distinct sexual behaviors and whose immune system indicated signs of illness within a specific range. New guidelines call for immediate treatment for anyone who has tested positive for HIV, regardless of how sick they are.
Who states, With its treat-all recommendation, WHO removes all limitations on eligibility for antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV. All populations and age groups are now eligible for treatment."
Removing the limitations and changing the guidelines will allow 37 million people in the world who have HIV to receive immediate treatment raising the number of eligibility by approximately 10 million individuals who would not have had access to HIV therapy under the old guidelines.
In addition, WHO made other extremely significant guideline changes, Following further evidence of the effectiveness and acceptability of pre-exposure prophylaxis, WHO has now broadened this recommendation to -- other population groups at significant HIV risk."
Removing this specific limitation, and offering preventive antiretroviral treatment for people considered at risk", may save the lives of 21 million people and prevent 28 million others from being infected by the year 2030, according the United Nations.
There are going to be challenges to implementing the new guidelines, however, as aid groups warn that it will require a major increase in funding, as well as education. Dr. Tom Ellman, director at Doctors Without Borders in South Africa, explains, HIV care has to move out of clinics and into communities with mobilized empowered and engaged people living with HIV that actually are part of the response."
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