ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation : declared in HIV rates lowest in five years in NSW, figures show

HIV rates lowest in five years in NSW, figures showPostedFigures released by the New South Wales Department of Health show a steady decline in the number of people being diagnosed with HIV. The 2016 NSW Annual Data report shows 317 people in New South Wales were diagnosed with HIV last year. Topics: aids-and-hiv, diseases-and-disorders, health, nsw The NSW Chief Officer, Dr Kerry Chant, said the daily pill offered 99 per cent protection for homosexual men, and 94 per cent protection for women if taken every day. "In Australia and in New South Wales about 80 per cent of people diagnosed with HIV are gay, or bisexual men," she said.

Researchers increase HIV treatment success rates by almost 18 percent

Researchers have been successful in increasing HIV treatment success rates by almost 18 percent. Professor Marijn de Bruin from the University of Aberdeen said: "This is the first adherence intervention in HIV care that demonstrates clinical and cost effectiveness. The study, published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, reports that whilst HIV medication does not deliver a cure, it works so well that the life-expectancy of people living with HIV is quite similar to that of healthy people. Using a combination of self-management strategies, counselling and patients tracking their own medication use with electronic pill bottles, the study found an increase in treatment success rates of almost 18% compared to patients who received regular care. However, a significant proportion of people with HIV take their medication too irregularly for it to work well, or discontinue their medication entirely.


But ensuring affordable and accessible care for people with HIV is also necessary to prevent new HIV infections. Advances in retroviral medications and increased availability of adequate health care have been essential to lowering rates of new HIV infections in the United States. Tens of thousands of those will be people living with HIV, for whom a delay or disruption in health care will have serious and lasting consequences. Protections for patients with pre-existing conditions allowed others to enroll in private insurance. AdvertisementBefore Barack Obama signed the ACA, just about 13 percent of people with HIV had private health insurance; many were on Medicaid, but 24 percent had no health insurance at all.


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