A widespread screening of the Aids virus and immediate treatment with anti-retrovirals for all HIV would reduce by 95 percent the number of people infected within a period of 10 years, according to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The team from the WHO investors, led by Reuben Granich, used computer models to predict the impact of a widespread epidemic among heterosexuals in a country like South Africa, the most affected by AIDS in the world. According to the study, the anti-AIDS strategy proposal were implemented, the number of HIV-infected pass of 20 per thousand to one per thousand within ten years.
At the end of 2007, about three million people were being treated in the world on antiretroviral drugs, but some 6.7 million did not have such treatment, not counting the 2.7 million who became infected in that year.
With the implementation of the strategy proposed in the WHO study, its authors argue that "the transmission could be reduced and limited the epidemic could decrease sharply until its disposal, age and die when the people on treatment."
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