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Making treatment as prevention a reality for people who inject drugs
Keith Alcorn, 2013-09-26 10:50:00
People who inject drugs risk being left behind as countries make efforts to scale up antiretroviral treatment unless greater efforts are made to develop services that meet the needs of this group, according to speakers at Controlling the HIV Epidemic with Antiretrovirals: From Consensus to Implementation, a conference that took place in London this week.
Anna Zakowicz of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) appealed to physicians to support the efforts of community-based activists to deliver services in settings where people who inject drugs are marginalised by policy makers.
“We need a movement from your side to give us – the community – power to deal with the epidemic” she said. “We are not taken seriously when we want to open clinics but we will continue to do testing [through outreach projects] even though it is illegal for us to do it.”
The conference, organised by the International Association of Providers in AIDS Care (IAPAC) and the British HIV Association in partnership with UNAIDS and Public Health England, brought together experts for discussion of how to expand treatment access in order to realise the full benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in preventing new HIV infections.
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