HIV/AIDS epidemic is affecting the Kenyan population heavily, it is estimated that there are about 300.000 Kenyan adults and children in urgent need of ARVs. The prevalence among the age group 15-49 is 7.8% , more than 1.4 million people are living with HIV/Aids in Kenya. In Nairobi, MSF runs the "Blue House", a private HIV/AIDS/TB clinic, in Mathare slum, where about 2 700 patients are receiving HIV/Aids care. Photograph by Julie Damond
Report |

Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response

HIV/AIDS
AIDS_report_GettingAheadWave_ENG_2011.pdf
Thumbnail
Photograph by Julie Damond

"Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response" details MSF’s experience implementing treatment strategies to improve care and policies needed to make massive scale-up of treatment more affordable.

The report also presents results of a survey conducted by MSF teams in 16 countries on progress in implementing WHO treatment guidelines as well as other important strategies to increase access to antiretroviral treatment (ART). While many countries have adopted improved protocols and policies, most HIV-prevalent countries are still struggling to reach more than 50% of people in need of ART or provide ART in more than 50% of existing facilities.

The progress thus far would not have been possible without external financial support, but it will take more mobilisation of domestic and external resources so that the population benefits of ART in reducing infections, deaths, and illness can be fully realised. With more than six million lives saved there is a lot to show for the last ten years of effort and with the latest evidence of ART reducing new infections, even more can be done in the next decade.

Getting Ahead of the Wave: Lessons for the Next Decade of the AIDS Response