President Shavkat Mirziyoyev yesterday signed the Measures to Further Improve the System of Fighting the Spread of Diseases Caused by HIV in Uzbekistan Decree approving the relevant State Program for 2018.
The commentary to the decree says that the material and resource base of the AIDS centers and the inter-district HIV diagnostics laboratories require renovation.
The AIDS Service does not have a single database that would allow real-time analysis of the state of affairs and to take timely and effective decisions.
Currently, in spite of the recommendations of the World Health Organization on the initiation of antiretroviral therapy for patients from the moment of diagnosis of HIV infection and regardless of the stage of the disease, only 47 percent of HIV-infected people are receiving treatment, and mainly those with progressig stage of the disease.
Children under 6 months old, born from HIV-infected mothers, are not being provided with dry milk powders in order to prevent from mother to child transmission of HIV.
Preventive measures among HIV risk groups are being implemented only with the help of donors.
A number of measures are envisaged for in order to eliminate the existing problems and to elevate the quality of the system of measures to fight the spread of HIV infection.
