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For the third consecutive year the
Community of Sant'Egidio has been invited to present the results of
the DREAM program to the CROI (Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infection), the most important yearly scientific
appointment that gathers scholars and researchers dealing with
HIV/AIDS.
This year the Congress has reached its
12th edition and it was held in Boston (USA) from February 22nd to
25th, 2005.
In the session on "Pregnancy
and Prevention of Perinatal HIV Transmission" Prof.
Leonardo Palombi and Dr Giovanni Guidotti presented DREAM's results in
interrupting the mother to child transmission of the disease.
In this field Dream reports remarkable
results, like the birth of about 1000 healthy babies from HIV-positive
mothers in Mozambique since the beginning of the program. Women's high
compliance to the antiretroviral therapy, if started precociously
during pregnancy, is a factor that drastically reduces mortality in
mothers and in babies, both notoriously high in poor countries.
These results give rise to a growing
interest in the international scientific milieu, making DREAM a model
to treat AIDS in limited resource countries.
Dream is indeed introducing therapeutic
standards in Africa the same level as the ones available in western
countries, proving how excellence is sustainable and that it
represents a factor of development for countries who introduce it.
Links: CROI
2005
(Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection
Contributions
of the Community of Sant'Egidio at hte previous Conferences:
2004 2003
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