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Sida : ce que j'ai vu en Afrique, par Bill Gates
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AIDS: what I saw in Africa, by Bill Gates
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AIDS: what I saw in Africa, by Bill Gates
Le Monde
26/06/2008

Récemment, at the time of the visit of a private clinic in Africa, my Melinda wife and me saw the poignant photograph of a fore-mentioned patient Jean, suffering of the AIDS, very thin and frail.

We looked at this photograph when a smiling man entered the private clinic to greet us. We spent one minute to realize that this person was Jean, quite alive and in good health, thanks to new effective drugs to treat the AIDS.

Jean is not an isolated case. According to a new report/ratio, the number of people according to a treatment against the AIDS has doubled for one year in the countries in the process of development. This result is due, mainly, with the generosity of the countries of G8 and France, which allocated 925 million euros at the Bottoms total to fight the AIDS, tuberculosis and the malaria.

If each one among us could personally meet an African whose life was saved by a treatment against the AIDS, I think that we all would be very proud of what was achieved and would incite our governments to continue this combat. However, to treat the disease represents only part of the solution. For the future good of Africa, we must more make to avoid the dissemination of this disease, in particular near the women.

The pitiless figures of the AIDS show the importance of the prevention. Thus, in 2006, whereas a patient was treated, six other people were infected. Without reduction of the number of infections, it will be impossible to answer the request growing for treatments.

Some are skeptics as for the possibility of changing the behaviors which increase the risks of contamination by the AIDS. I put whoever at the challenge statement that with the workers of the sex which we met in Africa lasting our voyages: they insist that their customers use a condom with each sexual relation.

Years of research proved that educational programs on the AIDS, the use of condoms and clean needles, as of the tests of tracking of the HIV can be very effective to prevent the dissemination of it. A report, which will be published the next month by the Total HIV Prevention Working Group, estimates that a significant development of the prevention would enable us to reduce two thirds the number of infections during one decade.

It is shocking that if few people - even among those presenting an extremely high risk - have access to these means of prevention which can save lives. In the world, the majority of the provided education for children do not receive any education on the risks of the AIDS. In Africa, only an adult on ten A access to a test of tracking of the virus and a pregnant woman on ten profits from inexpensive treatments, however able to protect the new-born babies from an infection.

Consequently, one of our priorities must be to better manage the prevention of the disease near the women and the girls, that particularly in Africa. Biologically, the women are likely twice more to be infected by the AIDS that the men. Even the married women have few possibilities of making sure of honesty of their partner or of knowing if it uses a condom.

However a woman should not be dependent on her husband to save her own life. I hope, in this respect, that science and technology will give to the women new means of prevention against the HIV. Promising research programs are in hand in the field of the microbicides: gel which the women could use to prevent the transmission of the AIDS. In the same way, of the drugs used for the treatment of the HIV could also be useful for the prevention of the AIDS. Of course, the development of a vaccine against the AIDS could constitute the most significant progress.

In addition to the development of new methods of prevention, we must also worry us more fundamental problems which increase the risks of AIDS in the women and the girls, in particular sexual and social violence, as well as the economic inequalities. We cannot forget the importance of the tracking of the HIV, crucial both for the treatment the prevention. The World Health Organization (WHO) should be congratulated to have enacted, the week spent, of the new directives in order to increase the access to tracking appreciably.

Fortunately - thanks to the great efforts of France and other countries -, to fight the AIDS in Africa east one of the priorities of G8, at the time of the top of this week. The donor countries should seize this occasion, in order to allocate additional resources with programs of effective prevention and treatment, while stressing the search for new means of prevention.

To control the AIDS and, one day, to eliminate it are the priority of the Foundation Spoil. We will not stop as much as this disease will not be éradiquée. And we hope that the most powerful nations of the world will not stop either.

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Bill Gates is a copresident of the Foundation Bill & Melinda Gates.

June 30, 2008 | 4:35 AM Comments  0 comments

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