Strategies in the fight against HIV and AIDS

The City of Cape Town Health Department has partnered with the NPO ANOVA a Health Institute since June 2019 to focus their Strategies in the fight against HIV and AIDS. If hey remain with their current strategies they plan to not only change the trajectory of HIV but the disease from keeping growing at an alarming rate, the disease will outrun the response. In 2017 the ANOVA Institute currently had 36.9 million people living with HIV globally, in South Africa they have 7.7 million people living with HIV. With an accelerated approach called APACE (accelerated program achievement) to Control of the epidemic which is the HIV epidemic, they have change their approach to HIV, by actively looking for those living with HIV, testing sites within the communities, with additional testers in the health facilities, additional trained professional nurses to commence ART for patients who requires it, various methods of collections of chronic medicine through quick pick up clubs, outside of clinic clubs in the community, welcoming back clients who left their treatment some time ago, restarting their ART, starting many people on ART.

ANOVA need to add 2 million people onto ART in South Africa to effectively stop the growth of this HIV virus amongst their population, with the City of Cape Town the ANOVA need to place 250 000 amongst their people. If everyone can get tested for HIV and get place on ART every person who requires ART, that means they will become vitally suppressed and not spread the disease any further.

Then ANOVA only need to keep all of their ART patients on treatment, by making it as easy as possible for them to get their treatment and remain on treatment, with as little impact on their working day and lives, that is so they can make it easy for people to pick up their other chronic medicines and ART from the same clinic at the same time,as that would make their lives much easier.

This is called Operationa Phathuma by the National Department of Health. ANOVA currently supported the City conducting 450 761 HIV tests of which 12 198 is HIV+ and started 16196 people on ART, however to make the necessary impact they need to start at least 4000 people onto ART per month.

For more information contact: www. anovahealth.co.za / 021 761 8751 / info@anovahealth.co.za

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