tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post802847658674296181..comments2023-10-08T12:27:04.050+03:00Comments on HIV in Kenya: The One Trick Pony That Can't Defy GravitySimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-22057548530642772232009-12-11T16:48:14.279+03:002009-12-11T16:48:14.279+03:00Hi Claire, thanks for your comment. I think the di...Hi Claire, thanks for your comment. I think the disproportionate amount spent on HIV is because it has been hi-jacked by political and commercial interests, whereas preventing it is seen as disease prevention in general, not very important, really.<br /><br />Health appears to be seen as a matter of diseases to be treated and perhaps controlled but is not seen as having anything to do with healthy people, just unhealthy people.<br /><br />The argument that treatment is the best way to deal with HIV is unsupported by evidence. Treatment is clearly part of prevention but it is not and can never be the whole of prevention.<br /><br />Even if every HIV positive person was on treatment, an unlikely feat, there would probably continue to be new cases of HIV, for various reasons, especially considering the millions of people who are HIV negative but are married to someone who is HIV positive.<br /><br />But I don't see us ever achieving 100% testing in the near future, let alone 100% treatment coverage!<br />Regards<br />SimonSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13522180315970081603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8229878121183426722.post-88674892958913780122009-12-11T14:57:15.185+03:002009-12-11T14:57:15.185+03:00Yes, surely the disproportionalte amount spent on ...Yes, surely the disproportionalte amount spent on HIV might be in part *because* it is a prevantable disease. Once we get into the argument that treatment is the best way to deal with HIV, funding this becomes much less important than treatments to reduce other diseases of high mortality, both on grounds of reducing disease burden, and also because treating most infectious diseases has a hughe impact on onward transmission (not as clearly true in the case of HIV).Clairenoreply@blogger.com