According to officials of the National Committee for the Fight against AIDS,
approximately 3% of the population of Cameroon is affected as against 5.5% in
2005. Committee officials made the revelation last
December 1, during commemorations marking International AIDS Day in Yaounde.
The National Committee also revealed that they started in 2005 when the
national prevalence rate stood at 5.5% and the latest demographic
survey indicated a prevalence rate of 4.3%
in 2011. Barely three years after, the prevalence rate is
about 3%. Even though they talked
of a good margin, Committee members also added that they are still waiting for
a national survey to confirm the rate. Dr. Claus Essomba, regional
coordinator of the National Committee
for the Fight against AIDS for
the Littoral is quoted to have said that it is the
survey that will give the exact figure (rate). “ Today we
have triple therapy, that is to say, an increase of three drugs, usually the most effective than each other”. It is alleged that for the past years, more than 5 billion CFA Francs
has been spent enabled the affect have anti-retro-
viral drugs and that the drugs have been stocked that
could get up to April 2015. “Our patients will not have a problem of anti-retro-viral”, Reassure
the doctor.
However, it has been reported that the high cost of tests, such as viral
load and frequent shortages
of anti-retro-viral drugs in some
areas has been some of the major predicaments. The National
Committee for the Fight against AIDS has promised to make necessary
arrangements so that all the subsidies
from the Ministry of Health is made available to the
beneficiaries within time record. Since in Cameroon it is better done on papers and speeches, it is hoped that the measures are respected to the later so that lives could be rescued. A suivre
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