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WHO Announces 3 X 5 Plans

Published: 04 December 2003

WHO unveils plans to treat 3 million by 2005

The World Health Organisation has published details of its plan to bring antiretroviral treatment to 3 million people living with HIV by the end of 2005.

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International experts have agreed that a triple combination of d4T (stavudine), 3TC (lamivudine) and nevirapine is likely to be the best option for swift implementation of antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings. The recommendation was agreed at a WHO and UNAIDS-sponsored consultation in Zambia in mid-November, and follows a similar recommendation from a consensus meeting sponsored by Medecins sans Frontieres in September.

Community mobilisation key to success of 3 x 5

The WHO 3 x 5 plan envisages that community-based organisations, including groups of people living with HIV, will play a key role in scaling up treatment. This is not just a measure to plug gaps in the health services of heavily affected countries, but a response to evidence from early pilot programmes. These programmes have demonstrated that community participation is a key element in ensuring the acceptability of treatment. Making treatment part of the social fabric rather than a hidden enterprise is the only way to ensure long-term adherence.

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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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