Study: Drug treatment can significantly reduce AIDS mortality
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Last Update: 2020-07-03
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Kenyan researchers saymany patientsin poor African countries are unable to receive drug treatmentbecause they live far fromhospitals,AIDS patients who can be treated at home can significantly reduce mortalityKenyan researchers recently published an article in the British journal The Lancet,
a medicaljournal,their use of antiretroviral drugs to treat patients in their homes,the results of which reduce AIDS mortality by more than 90 percent, the Kenya Times reported
on March 1The KenyaCenter for Disease
control and control team studied more than 1,000 AIDS patients in rural Uganda, hiring untrained personnel to travel to the patient's home each week to deliver medicine and learn about medication All AIDS patients studied were not treated at hospitals during this period In their study, the researchers said, the decline in AIDS mortality was comparable to that of hospitals in Europe and other African countries, where the cost per patient was 2
5 cents per day
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