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─ Area: AIDS-HIV - R ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Msg#: 528 Date: 01-08-93 06:03
From: Billi Goldberg Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: (10) CDC SUMMARY 1/7/93
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-=> Quoting Billi Goldberg to All <=-
BG> "VIIth International Conference on AIDS in Africa" AIDS Treatment
BG> News (01/01/93) No. 166, P. 7 (Heyman, Jason)
BG> The Seventh International Conference on AIDS in Africa was held
BG> in Yaounde, Cameroon, from Dec. 8-11. The tone, however, was
BG> somewhat murky. The primary issue addressed was HIV prevention and
BG> how efforts in Africa are hurting due to a lack of resources. Michael
BG> Merson, the director of the World Health Organization's Global
BG> Program on AIDS, said, "There have already been over 7.5 million
BG> infections in adults [in Africa] since the start of the pandemic,
BG> close to 4 million of them in women." There was very little
BG> discussion on treatments used for HIV infection. But HIV-2 was
BG> discussed in detail at the conference. HIV-2 has come to be known as
BG> the virus of developing countries and has not been given the attention
BG> that HIV-1 has received. It was revealed that HIV-2 is much less
BG> likely to be transmitted from mother to child. Sy El Hadj Amadou,
BG> the African Secretary of the International Council of AIDS Service
BG> Organizations (ICASO) delivered a speech at the conference which drew
BG> a connection between the failure of prevention efforts and the lack
BG> of AIDS treatments available to Africans. He said that as a
BG> consequence of the African AIDS community's defeatist attitude
BG> towards access to treatment, and the West's view of Africa as
BG> hopeless, all anti-AIDS efforts are seen as weak and not taken
BG> seriously by the public. The only treatment discussed in any detail
BG> was PCM-4, a little-known alternative treatment made from extracts of
BG> pig spleen and Siberian genseng, Eleutherococcus senticosus.
BG> Currently, it is being researched in the United States and Uganda,
BG> and is sold in buyers' clubs and health-food stores.
BG> -!-
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