Worldwide HIV screening intrigue could annul Aids

A GLOBAL mass-population screening programme could absolved the universe of Aids in 40 years. A heading health consultant says that contrast majority of the worlds race for HIV afterwards treating the putrescent would hindrance delivery of the pathogen by 2015. By 2050, when majority HIV carriers will have died, the widespread would effectively be over, argues Professor Brian Williams, who is formed in South Africa.The cost would be enormous, costing about �2 billion in South Africa alone. But this would be equivalent by saving the lives of productive, working-age individuals, Prof Williams believes.He told the annual assembly of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "The complaint is we"re right away utilizing HIV drug to save lives; we"re not utilizing them to stop transmission."Can we make use of anti-retroviral drug not usually to keep people alive but additionally to stop transmission? I hold we can."