(CNN) -this week, we hosted a famous expert in the treatment of HIV/AIDS are currently practicing in a hospital who is best known for serving the poor and vulnerable in New York.
It was her impression that there has been a dramatic decline in the number of patients who were treated at the hospital who live with HIV. Today, in fact, the hospital was considering closing the service cares for these people because of the small number of reception.
Those of us who are involved in the care of people with HIV in Atlanta are amazed. Grady Hospital and Ponce de Leon Center, which is a clinic for HIV/AIDS outpatient us, we keep busy looking at newly diagnosed individuals with AIDS, especially with presentation and the final stage of the disease suffered by classical infections and cancers that are so common 30 years ago, when HIV was first described.
This month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the address of the National Institutes of Health called for a free AIDS generation, and the theme of World AIDS Day on December 1, "Getting to zero."
Recently released data showed 96% decrease dramatically in the transmission of HIV virus between individuals when antiretroviral therapy in infected partner, leading to the concept of "treatment as a precaution." Treatment regimen is simple: active drug regimen once exceeded 20 pills every day, but now a pill once a day is able to control the virus.