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Group: HIV/AIDS Among Top 10 Crises of the Year
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| While this decade saw millions of HIV/AIDS patients in developing nations gain access to treatment, an estimated 10 million patients still go without, Doctors Without Borders reported Monday. DWB’s top-ten list of humanitarian crises includes AIDS treatment access, because many of the G8 nations that pledged support for universal treatment access in 2005 have announced plans to scale back or limit funding. The G8 sought universal treatment access by 2010.
“When there are concerning signs of retreat for access to treatment, it’s important to state that HIV/AIDS is an emergency,” said Sophie Delaunay, executive director of DWB-United States. “In some countries doctors are turning patients away, advised to wait until other patients die,” said Delaunay. “What’s going to happen is that patients are going to show up at the door of our clinics and there is a high possibility of us getting overwhelmed.”
DWB has issued an annual list of crises since 1998, spurred on by a famine in southern Sudan largely ignored in the US media. The crises are not ranked in order of importance. This year, DWB cited governments in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Sudan for blocking lifesaving assistance. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, government forces attacked civilians who had gathered for a DWB childhood vaccination campaign, the group said.
DWB also flagged Chagas, visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, and other diseases of the poor as neglected by the international community. To access the list, visit http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/topten/2009/.
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Developing Nations
Food Services
Funding Issues
Health Care Accessibility
HIV/AIDS Treatment or Therapies
International Agencies
International Health
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cdcnpin.org News Record #54501
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