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Thank you Claudes Kamenga for bringing the HIV+ human being back into the discussion.In all this talk about cost-effectiveness, health budgets etc, we seem to have forgotten about human suffering.People are dying while we are talking.In Malaysia, the only people attempting to provide financial assistance for ARVs is an NGO. It's very very limited but it's at least something.The government, in the good times, didn't want to address the question of poverty and lack of access to treatment. Now it's bad times, you can forget it altogether. So the demand comes to an NGO already facing difficulties in trying to raise funds in an environment where people cannot be as generous as before. On another issue, in Indonesia where they are facing severe economic difficulties, it is unofficially estimated that 13 million people are jobless. This means that 13 million people become vulnerable to all sorts of things including HIV infection.The lack of prevention programmes now will mean having to deal with large numbers of people with HIV/AIDS later.How to talk to a country about providing ARVs, whether from the government or other bodies, when they have so many other problems and when the very dire predictions of future numbers of people with AIDS are so alarming? Marina Mahathir, Malaysian AIDS Council |
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