Association: About 3,300 HIV-positive people know their status but are not treated in Latvia and continue to spread the infection | BNN

<img clbad = "alignnone size-full wp-image-290833 aligncenter" title = "Foto: CLAUDIO REYES / AFP" src = "https://bnn.lv/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/ AFP_22970983.jpg "alt =" HIV in Latvia continues its victorious procession – about 3,300 people infected with HIV know their status but are not treated and continue to spread the infection, so it is urgent to take measures for Latvia to lose its HIV status and that the infection is limited, the Baltic Association for HIV calls for addressing the HIV / AIDS situation and recommendations for immediate action in nearly a hundred policy makers and hospitals considers that three measures urgently require: abolish existing restrictions on the initiation of treatment (500 CD4) in order to make the drug available to all HIV-infected patients. , the Association believes that the role of HIV prevention firms in the dia HIV gnostic and access to treatment should be increased by sending people with a positive result. "The beginning of the year in the field of HIV has given positive news on the improvement of the availability of treatment, but we see now in the middle of the year that the number of patients treated Has not increased as fast as it should be.This means that it is necessary to work more and more actively to find new ways to increase the number of patients We address ourselves directly and individually to decision-makers, Ministry of Health officials, other institutions, physicians in hospitals and medical badociations in the sectors concerned, and we invite you to understand that "the plan is, Money is – is it insufficient? "The situation will not change and the HIV infection will continue to spread," says Inga Upmace, director of the Baltic HIV Association