Urgent: Ensure treatment for People with HIV/AIDS in Venezuela - #SOSVIHVenezuela
Urgent: Ensure treatment for People with HIV/AIDS in Venezuela - #SOSVIHVenezuela
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We are writing to you in order to express our deep distress and concern about the high risk of more than 61,000 people with HIV and AIDS in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, because drugs to treat HIV (called antiretroviral) available from the Ministry of Popular Power for Health, will be fully exhausted the coming month of June 2016. The rest of the year, people with HIV and AIDS will not be able to take their medication, which will have negative effects on their health and could even lead to the development of the disease and therefore to death.
We have been informed[1] that the cause of this serious situation is that the Ministry of Health, for unknown reasons, has not made the purchases of 90% of these antiretrovirals and reagents for HIV corresponding to 2015 and amounting to 32 million US dollars to the Drug Strategic Fund of the Pan- American Health Organization.
We know that currently, people with HIV from several Venezuelan states report that they are feeling the shortage of antiretrovirals, along with other types of medicines that they also need since they have other health conditions for the treatment diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory, dermatological, neurological, dialysis, organ transplants, among others affections, because the public health system does not give them these drugs.
Also, people with HIV affirm that public health centers do not have materials and basic inputs such as antibiotics, analgesics, cotton, syringes, serums, gloves; many medical devices do not work due to lack of maintenance or because they are obsolete, which influences on the poor quality of the health service.
Mothers with HIV assert that the Ministry of Health does not provide them with pediatric antiretrovirals and breastmilk substitutes for their children with HIV, which prevents them from feeding them adequately and prevent HIV infection. Pregnant women with HIV, by not taking medicines for HIV, are at risk of transmitting the virus to their babies during childbirth.
As you are aware, from 8 to 10 June 2016 the High Level Meeting on AIDS will be held to assess progress, successes, best practices, opportunities, barriers and challenges to all countries, including Venezuela, the results of which will identify the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on AIDS and policy statements on HIV/AIDS 2006 and 2011. Surely the high risk that people with HIV and AIDS in Venezuela have will be discussed in this HLM, if your government does not respond favorably. We are sure and confident that the necessary definitions should be taken to avoid such situations for the benefit of our sisters and brothers in Venezuelans.
As a representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in our country, we urge you respectfully to draw attention to this health crisis and ask your government to urgently acquire antiretroviral drugs to be delivered immediately to people with HIV and AIDS to preserve their health and lives.
Failure to guarantee the human rights of people with HIV and AIDS tarnish the reputation and credibility of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international arena; in our organization, we are certain of its highest commitment to safeguarding the health and lives of its citizens, so we have no doubt that the necessary measures are to be taken.
Respectfully,
La causa
Versión español
We are writing to you in order to express our deep distress and concern about the high risk of more than 61,000 people with HIV and AIDS in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, because drugs to treat HIV (called antiretroviral) available from the Ministry of Popular Power for Health, will be fully exhausted the coming month of June 2016. The rest of the year, people with HIV and AIDS will not be able to take their medication, which will have negative effects on their health and could even lead to the development of the disease and therefore to death.
We have been informed[1] that the cause of this serious situation is that the Ministry of Health, for unknown reasons, has not made the purchases of 90% of these antiretrovirals and reagents for HIV corresponding to 2015 and amounting to 32 million US dollars to the Drug Strategic Fund of the Pan- American Health Organization.
We know that currently, people with HIV from several Venezuelan states report that they are feeling the shortage of antiretrovirals, along with other types of medicines that they also need since they have other health conditions for the treatment diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases, respiratory, dermatological, neurological, dialysis, organ transplants, among others affections, because the public health system does not give them these drugs.
Also, people with HIV affirm that public health centers do not have materials and basic inputs such as antibiotics, analgesics, cotton, syringes, serums, gloves; many medical devices do not work due to lack of maintenance or because they are obsolete, which influences on the poor quality of the health service.
Mothers with HIV assert that the Ministry of Health does not provide them with pediatric antiretrovirals and breastmilk substitutes for their children with HIV, which prevents them from feeding them adequately and prevent HIV infection. Pregnant women with HIV, by not taking medicines for HIV, are at risk of transmitting the virus to their babies during childbirth.
As you are aware, from 8 to 10 June 2016 the High Level Meeting on AIDS will be held to assess progress, successes, best practices, opportunities, barriers and challenges to all countries, including Venezuela, the results of which will identify the implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on AIDS and policy statements on HIV/AIDS 2006 and 2011. Surely the high risk that people with HIV and AIDS in Venezuela have will be discussed in this HLM, if your government does not respond favorably. We are sure and confident that the necessary definitions should be taken to avoid such situations for the benefit of our sisters and brothers in Venezuelans.
As a representative of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in our country, we urge you respectfully to draw attention to this health crisis and ask your government to urgently acquire antiretroviral drugs to be delivered immediately to people with HIV and AIDS to preserve their health and lives.
Failure to guarantee the human rights of people with HIV and AIDS tarnish the reputation and credibility of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international arena; in our organization, we are certain of its highest commitment to safeguarding the health and lives of its citizens, so we have no doubt that the necessary measures are to be taken.
Respectfully,
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