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ART means treating retroviral infections like HIV with drugs. The drugs do not kill the virus. However, they slow down the growth of the virus. When the virus is slowed down, so is HIV disease. Antiretroviral drugs are referred to as ARV. ARV therapy is referred to as ART or CART (Combination Antiretroviral Therapy.)[1]

ARV | zimbio.comPada awal program penanggulangan HIV dan AIDS di Indonesia, mayoritas program mengacu pada program yang pernah dilakukan di berbagai negara, dan rujukan program juga mengacu pada pedoman yang dikeluarkan oleh WHO. Terminologi yang dipakaipun mengacu pada terminologi WHO, seperti care support and treatmen dan dalam bahasa program dikenal dengan istilah CST. Pada tahun 2010an istilah CST dalam dokumen SRAN – 2014 disebut dengan Perawatan, Dukungan dan Pengobatan.

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antiretroviral | womenshealthency.comPenggunaan ARV di Indonesia sebenarnya sudah cukup lama, yaitu sejak 1990. Hanya saja waktu itu penggunaanya masih mono terapi atau duo terapi. Penggunaan terapi tiga kombinasi obat ARV baru dapat dilaksanakan pada November 1999, ketika Pokdisus AIDS FKUI mulai melaksanakan Program Akses Diagnosis dan Terapi. Melalui program ini Pokdisus melakukan negosiasi kepada perusahaan farmasi paten (obat & reagen laboratorium). Upaya tersebut berhasil menurunkan harga obat sebayak 30% dari harga obat pada umumnya. Meskipun harganya telah berhasil diturunkan 30%, namun penggunaan ARV angkanya tidak banyak berubah. Hal ini dikarenakan untuk harganya untuk kebanyakan masyarakat Indonesia dirasakan masih sangat mahal .

Tahun 2000, India berhasil memproduksi obat ARV generic, segera setelah itu pemerintah Afrika Selatan dan Thailand membeli untuk masyarakat mereka. Juni 2001, perwakilan dari Pokdisus mengunjungi India berupaya untuk mengakses obat ARV generik. Kunjungan tersebut berhasil mendapatkan komitmen dari salah satu perusahan produsen obat ARV generik di India. September 2001, paket obat ARV generik pertama dari India sampai di Indonesia. Upaya yang dilakukan Pokdisus mendapat respons positif dari masyarakat, setelah itu penggunaan obat ARV jumlahnya terus bertambah besar.

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Tribune, 4 July 2014

An increase could signify greater awareness, but also higher number of cases.ISLAMABAD: There has been an increase in the number of AIDS patients registered at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), compared to last year.

Dr Rizwan Qazi, head of the Pims Centre for Treatment and Prevention of AIDS said 237 HIV-positive patients were registered last year, while 148 patients have been registered in the first six months of the year. If the trend continues, the hospital may receive around 300 patients this year. In 2012, 257 cases were registered. The total number of HIV-positive patients registered with the centre since its establishment in 2005 has reached 1,831 with 10 deaths reported so far.

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the Voice, 4 July 2014

Gosego Madziba awarded for being the best outstanding Peer EducatorBotswana Business Coalition on AIDS (BBCA) peer educators engaged in a project that disseminated HIV/AIDS and wellness information in different companies in Francistown and Palapye district recently.

Employees were addressed on Multiple Concurrent Partnerships, Consistent Condom use and Safe Male Circumcision. This was to strengthen private sectors' role in managing and combating the spread of HIV and AIDS.

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Spy Ghana, 3 July 2014

Early struggles in developing a response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic were remembered by African women church leaders who gathered in Nairobi, Kenya to celebrate more than 30 years of their Christian ministry in the churches of their region.

The event brought together over 100 women church leaders from Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Swaziland, Ghana, Uganda, Eritrea, Rwanda, Tanzania, Cameroon and the Netherlands at the St. Andrews Church (Presbyterian Church of East Africa) on 23 June.

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