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Hivpositive Toril Martinussen (64) is from Stamsund, but lives today in Trøgstad. She is very skeptical about the evolution of medicine. She fears that cheaper drugs and the increase in the dose cause more side effects.
– Earlier, I took this kind of medicine. This has given me serious side effects like bones. Many HIV-infected patients have had far more serious side effects, such as constant headaches, she says.
Experts fear AIDS crisis
Martinussen has been HIV-positive for 20 years. This week, she is attending the major international AIDS conference in Amsterdam. Several experts fear that the AIDS epidemic is out of control and is preventing an unusually large crisis.
To achieve the UN goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030, new infectious diseases must be limited to 500,000 cases in two years. 19659005] Last year, 1.8 million people were infected with HIV worldwide. Michael Sidibe launches a report that he hopes to be the solution for the end of the AIDS epidemic "title =" Foto: DENIS BALIBOUSE / Reuters "/>
Experts fear that the epidemic AIDS control does not happen, control and warn against a crisis of exceptional size According to the director of the United Nations (UNAIDS) aid program, Michel Sidibe, it is a deficit funding of $ 7 billion. "If we do not pay now, we will have to pay much later," he says.
Photo: DENIS BALIBOUSE / Reuters
– The drugs I've been doing for two years, Genvoya, have few side effects, I do not understand why they would return to a diet that nobody would be satisfied
Since September 1, health authorities recommend that HIV patients switch to a cheaper drug and that They take more tablets a day. 19659005] Patients HIV-positive people are worried that their treatment will worsen after Norwegian health authorities have adopted new guidelines on the drugs they should receive. The new recommendations mean that patients must go from one to two tablets a day, which can also cause new side effects.
– They do not save
Toril Martinussen has no trouble understanding the health system to save money. But she thinks health bureaucrats are starting at the wrong end.
– We are chronically ill who have to save for them. It must then be possible to go to the pharmaceutical industry that determines the prices. What about bureaucracy and management salaries in health care? They call it a virtue, but it's a virtue of life as an effort, she believes.
Medical Support
Ingrid Slørdal is a nurse at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, and has been working with HIV patients since the 1990s. She is part of the group of specialists who proposed new drug recommendations, but she is not satisfied with the conclusion.
– The new drugs have eliminated more side effects and greater risk of interactions with other drugs. It is also more bulky to take two tablets instead of one.
Now she fears the consequences of the new treatment
– There is a risk that more people stop taking medication when they experience side effects. We have experienced many times that people started taking medication.
Save $ 65 Million
Hospital purchases, headquartered in Vadsø, hope to save $ 65 million on cheaper drugs. They do not want to interview, but Bente Hayes, Director of Drug Procurement, writes this in an email to NRK:
– We would like to say that patients will always have drugs as safe and safe as that. before. The main rule is that as many as possible follow the recommendations and replace the drug, but in individual cases where there are medical reasons, there is room for the patient to continue his current treatment. Medical assessments should be performed by each physician in consultation with each patient.
