AFRO-NETS> International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit (2)

[Ali Mzige <amzige@hotmail.com>]

International HIV/AIDS Treatment Education and Advocacy Summit (2)
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Dear Colleagues,

Thank you for the information and the invitation to the Summit. My 
worry and concern is on the word "TREATMENT". Do we give hopes that 
we can now treat HIV/AIDS? The way it will be interpreted will mean 
there is no difference with the messages we get from our Traditional 
Healers who claim to CURE AND TREAT HIV/AIDS. I would rather resort 
to the word "MANAGEMENT" and/or "PALLIATIVE TREATMENT" of HIV/AIDS 
complications and other opportunistic infections. 

A person with HIV and having Tuberculosis in some circles is regarded 
as having AIDS. We can treat the Tuberculosis but we cannot - and I 
repeat - we cannot treat HIV/AIDS. In most cases where there is spe-
cific disease like Malaria and/or Typhoid then I can use the word 
treatment, in the sense that the cure is known and is available. I am 
not after semantics but concerning the word 'treatment' with regard 
to HIV/AIDS I beg to submit for clarification and understanding. 

Dr. Ali A. Mzige
Director Preventive Services
Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
mailto:amzige@hotmail.com

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