The key actions needed to end AIDS are relatively clear. The question is whether every government, funder, and implementing organisations will apply them.
- Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town
Cryptococcal ceningitis is one of the main causes of death of people with HIV. The tests and medicines to diagnose and treat it exist but remain inaccessible to most. A global strategy is needed.
Where there are not enough health workers to deliver medical care, one solution is to move certain tasks to less specialised health workers, a process called task-shifting.
One of the main challenges remains that diagnostics and drugs for people suffering from advanced HIV aren’t readily available. This group of people is vulnerable to deadly opportunistic infections.
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