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Fewer Adults Dying In African Countries That Received U.S. Financial Support For AIDS Relief

“FEWER ADULTS DYING IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES THAT RECEIVED U-S FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR AIDS RELIEF”

INTRO: Treatment, education and prevention have been the focus of the United States when it comes to addressing the H-I-V/AIDS epidemic in Africa.  In 2003, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief or PEPFAR began targeting several African countries, by providing to fight the disease. A new study examines if this effort is associated with saving lives. Catherine Dolf explains in this week’s JAMA Report.

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VOICES RAISED IN SONG. SINGING ABOUT AN AFRICA WHERE H-I-V AND AIDS IS CLAIMING FEWER AND FEWER LIVES.

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SOT/FULL Super @:08 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :06

“On the global scale about two thirds of all the people who live with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.

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THESE COUNTRIES ARE BELOW THE SAHARA DESERT. THREE QUARTERS OF THOSE PEOPLE ALSO DIE FROM THE DISEASE.  IN 2003 A MAJOR U-S INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS THIS EPIDEMIC BEGAN. IT’S CALLED THE PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF OR PEPFAR.

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SOT/FULL Super @:28 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :06

“This has been the single largest US investment in a single disease in health in the history of US foreign aid.”

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DR. ERAN (Air-RAHN) BENDAVID FROM STANFORD UNIVERSITY AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED MORE THAN A MILLION AND A HALF ADULTS IN 27 AFRICAN COUNTRIES FROM 1998 TO 2008. THEY RANGED IN AGE FROM 15 TO 59. NINE OF THOSE COUNTRIES WERE PEPFAR FOCUS COUNTRIES. RESEARCHERS WANTED TO KNOW WHETHER THE INFLUX OF U-S DOLLARS FOR H-I-V EDUCATION, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH CHANGES IN MORTALITY.

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SOT/FULL Super @:56 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :10

“We estimate that in those nine countries during that period between 2004 and 2008 about 740 thousand adults did not die in association with the program.”

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THE STUDY APPEARS IN A THEME ISSUE ON GLOBAL HEALTH IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

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SOT/FULL Super @ 1:12 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :14

“A lot of times there are concerns that foreign aid disappears somewhere in the path between the coffers in Washington and the recipients on the ground we’re showing this particular investment has a substantial affect that trickled all the way down to really improving people’s lives.”

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THERE WERE ALSO CONCERNS THAT FOCUSING JUST ON H-I-V WAS CROWDING OUT OTHER HEALTH CARE INVESTMENTS CAUSING UNINTENDED HARMS.

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SOT/FULL Super @ 1:33 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :06

“The mortality reduction was if anything larger in the general population than in the HIV infected population.”

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RESEARCHERS SAY IN AREAS WITH THE HIGHEST H-I-V PREVALENCE, U-S INVESTMENTS WILL IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF PEOPLE TO CARE FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF THEIR COUNTRIES ECONOMIES.

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SOT/FULL Super @ 1:50 Eran Bendavid, M.D., M.S., – Stanford University Runs :11

“What we hope is that our study will be the beginning of broader interest and broader understanding of how these investments are making a change for the good in terms of all these social effects from HIV.”

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CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.

TAG: THE UNITED STATES ALSO SUPPORTS OTHER PROGRAMS, THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA AND THE PRESIDENT’S MALARIA INITIATIVE.