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La lotta all'AIDS in 9 diagrammi

Geek   02.12.15  

Oggi una persona sieropositiva può vivere una vita piena e lunga se segue trattamento precoce. L'AIDS è meno invincibile rispetto a 20 anni fa grazie ai progressi della medicina, ma siamo ancora lontani da una vittoria contro questa epidemia e il miglior modo per batterla resta ancora la prevenzione. Riducendo a due parole: test e preservativo.

In attesa di una cura definitiva Vox racconta con 9 diagrammi lo stato della lotta all'AIDS.

"We broke the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic," explains Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS. "Fewer people are dying, there are fewer new infections, and we can even say soon that we will not have babies born to HIV." But Sidibé also cautioned that there remains a lot of work to be done. We've made significant progress against HIV/AIDS — but we're still very far from winning.

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Forse possiamo sconfiggere l'AIDS

Geek   03.06.11  

Dopo trent'anni serpeggia un cauto ottimismo riguardo la possibilità di sconfiggere l'AIDS.

One june 5th 1981 America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak of an unusual form of pneumonia in Los Angeles. When, a few weeks later, its scientists noticed a similar cluster of a rare cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma in San Francisco, they suspected that something strange and serious was afoot. That something was AIDS.

Since then, 25m people have died from AIDS and another 34m are infected. The 30th anniversary of the disease's discovery has been taken by many as an occasion for hand-wringing. Yet the war on AIDS is going far better than anyone dared hope. A decade ago, half of the people in several southern African countries were expected to die of AIDS. Now, the death rate is dropping. In 2005 the disease killed 2.1m people. In 2009, the most recent year for which data are available, the number was 1.8m. Some 5m lives have already been saved by drug treatment. In 33 of the worst-affected countries the rate of new infections is down by 25% or more from its peak.

Even more hopeful is a recent study which suggests that the drugs used to treat AIDS may also stop its transmission. If that proves true, the drugs could achieve much of what a vaccine would. The question for the world will no longer be whether it can wipe out the plague, but whether it is prepared to pay the price.

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