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Forecast of 68 million dead

Barcelona - The statistics were sobering at the 14th Biennial International Conference on AIDS was launched this July 7.

Over 20 million people died of AIDS and nearly 40 million infected with HIV. In 2020, another 68 million have died in May, according to UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS. Drugs preventing progress of HIV to AIDS are mostly not available everywhere in the world. Only about 700,000 of 40 million infected people are considered to have access to a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs. That's less than 2 percent.

The problem is that most of the time, cost. Pharmaceutical companies charge $ 12,000 to $ 15,000 per year per person for the treatment - beyond the means of all but the wealthy and those with full access the world premiere of health care systems.

Under pressure, some companies have reduced the price of AIDS drugs in some Third World countries, but not enough that people can afford. An exception is Brazil, which ignores the international patents and producing generic AIDS drugs.

"We are only at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic," said director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot. "Collectively, we have grossly, underestimated the seriousness that it would be scary .... It is by far the largest epidemic humanity has ever known in absolute terms. "

While the conference has started, therapeutic vaccines and entry inhibitors have been the source of rumors.

Therapeutic vaccines are administered to people already infected to strengthen your immune system to fight HIV.

Inhibitors the entry is the next class of anti-HIV drug to reach the market, joining the protease inhibitors and transcriptase inhibitors currently unavailable. Inhibitors entry, which must be injected, previous work in the infection process than other drugs, HIV thwart attempts to join an immune system cell, first place.

T-20 should be the first entry inhibitor of generally available, probably within a year.

Just before the opening conference on 7 July, several hundred protesters called BREAK (AIDS Therapeutic Treatment Now) marched on the conference site.

One leaflet said that his request was "an antiretroviral treatment to 2 million people living and dying with HIV / AIDS by the year 2004 the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. "

This could be done, they said, through drastic cuts price of AIDS drugs, the increase in laws that prevent copying generic medicines.

The organization also calls for lower prices in the developed world, where spending on health care increasingly significantly faster than inflation, due largely to the price of pharmaceuticals.

BREAK was created by the Network of Communities AIDS in South Africa, Uganda Business Coalition on HIV / AIDS, AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles and the immunity of the Global Foundation Project.

The opening plenary was normal except for the speech by the Spanish Minister of Health and Consumption, Celia Villalobos. Nobody heard what you said, because several hundred delegates Spanish shouting and whistling during his speech.

They were surprised by reports that some delegates of the Third World have developed major complications in the obtaining visas to attend the conference, and Spain has budgeted for 21 percent of its promised 50 million euros (51 million) contribution to the global fight against AIDS. Other speakers, like Reeve, mayor of Barcelona, the president of Catalonia (an autonomous region that is located in Barcelona), His Highness Real, Infanta Elena (The king's daughter) and various international organizations Officials of AIDS.

In the United States, said a spokesman for Problems in Washington, DC, advocacy group AIDS Action, one of the best tools related barebacking is today - target = "_self" title = "Videos gay "> gay men deliberately did not use condoms during casual sex.

"There are many the notion that AIDS is no longer in the United States is not a problem, "Scott Brawley AIDS Action, said in an interview after the opening plenary.

"Messages prevention are not working. We men target = "_self" title = "Videos Gay | Gay Chat"> bareback gay. We have groups of risk sharing needles again. We heterosexuals have no idea what is happening. We have a whole generation of people under 30 who does not remember the The AIDS epidemic, they think that this is nothing more than "hell, you take a couple of pills and was fine."

Brawley, said they do not actually have good ideas on how to stop hair gay.

"My honest answer, a gay man is things have to deteriorate further before improving," he said. "resistant HIV strains, an explosion of HIV, something can go wrong with drugs. You never know when will the drugs."

The conference will be held until July 12 when the closing plenary session will be led by former U.S. president Bill Clinton, who is president of the International Advisory Board AIDS Trust and former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is the honorary co-chair of the International AIDS Foundation.

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