Alcohol and drug addiction are the major drivers in HIV/AIDS diseases in many parts of the world, but due to various political reasons, scientists and clinicians tend to avoid the research of HIV.
But in a presentation in Australia at 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis the scientists all over the world had discussed about the implications of drug and alcohol dependence. An analysis on number of studies in association with alcohol use and HIV in sub African region found that drinkers had a 70 percent rise in risk as compared to non drinkers.
But in a presentation in Australia at 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis the scientists all over the world had discussed about the implications of drug and alcohol dependence. An analysis on number of studies in association with alcohol use and HIV in sub African region found that drinkers had a 70 percent rise in risk as compared to non drinkers.
The director of National Institute on Drug Abuse described alcohol addiction as a chronic brain disability determined by genetics and environmental factors, but this factors have not prevented addicts from being highly stigmatized, and HIV-positive addicts.
Drug addiction has many serious health consequences which include a greater risk of infectious disease such as HIV. One can’t cure drug addiction but one can definitely treat it and one should because treating drug addiction is a way one can prevent HIV.
Various treatment techniques like behavioral therapies and substitution using methadone or similar drugs will help overcome drug addicts and lower their HIV risks which are unavailable to most settings. Eastern Europe and Central Asia have also experienced an epidemic in drug use since 1990, with the result that drug users now make up 85 percent of people living with HIV in most parts of region.
In south Africa there is increase in methamphetamine usage, since 2003 which have lead to spread of HIV in a country which has the largest burden in the world. The medications to treat methamphetamine has addiction are in a development stage so as of now behavioral therapy would be in effective state. The evidence that methamphetamine treatment equals HIV prevention still these treatment plans are in the development which needs to be implemented which one would like to know.
So at the 5th International Conference, the studies were shown to prove that treatment of drug addiction reduce the chances of HIV to a very minimalistic amount.
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