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Why should the state cover the cost of drugs for AIDS patients?

If the State does not cover the cost of medication for AIDS patients, the average family cannot afford it, and some families have not one AIDS patient, but several. Once they know that they are infected with AIDS, they are sentenced to death. They will break the mold, and the consequences will be very serious. If the government gives them free treatment, their life expectancy will be more or less the same as that of a normal person, and they will be grateful to the government and society for reducing the rate of spread of AIDS. Therefore, it is in the interest of the country and the people for the Government to give free treatment to AIDS patients. Just as in the case of New Crown Pneumonia, which family among the common people can afford to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for medication?

The main reason is that it is socially harmful, it is an infectious disease, treatment is very expensive, many people cannot afford to take the medicine, and without treatment, the body will have a high viral load and become more contagious, and the treatment is designed to suppress the viral viability to the lowest possible level and reduce the spread of the virus, which is the point of the free treatment.

Many patients with cancer and other chronic diseases cannot figure out how to do so because they cannot be treated free of charge and can only be reimbursed by health insurance, and the State, with its limited resources, can only look at the big picture because cancer is a chronic disease that is not contagious.

This is probably the same reason why the State bears the costs of those infected with New Crown Pneumonia. In fact, the State provides free treatment for any infectious disease that is more widespread and harmful, such as tuberculosis, such as SARS and, in this case, neo-crestic pneumonia.

According to the World Health Organization, there are 660,000 people living with HIV in China who know their status, and China has a policy of "four exemptions and one care" for AIDS patients:

  • 1. Free antiretroviral drugs are provided to AIDS patients with financial difficulties who are not enrolled in the basic health insurance medical care system;
  • 2. Provide free counseling and testing for persons who volunteer for AIDS counseling and testing;
  • 3. Provision of free mother-to-child interruption drugs and infant testing reagents for infected pregnant women;
  • 4. Exemption from school fees for orphans of AIDS patients.

"One care" means that AIDS patients in difficulty are included in the scope of government assistance and are given the necessary living relief in accordance with the relevant State regulations (it seems to be 1,500 yuan per month); AIDS patients with production capacity are actively supported; and discrimination against AIDS-infected and AIDS-positive people is avoided.

From the free policy above, we can see the deeper meaning of the state:

1. Reflects humanistic care

AIDS is not yet curable; its treatment is a long-term process and many people cannot sustain the whole treatment. The provision of antiretroviral drugs by the State is a bottom-up measure to prevent AIDS patients from having no recourse and to enable them to receive care;

2. Ability to effectively control dissemination

Through free counseling, testing and treatment, and the corresponding care policy, it is possible for people suspected of having AIDS to take the initiative to seek medical treatment, thus enabling the relevant authorities to understand the situation, take the initiative to provide assistance and education, and avoid the expansion of the contagion;

3. Avoiding mother-to-child transmission

The provision of blocking drugs for pregnant women and testing reagents for infants allows for eugenics and prevents children from being born with the threat of AIDS;

4. Promoting social stability

Non-discrimination against AIDS patients, free treatment and provision of living allowances; and waiving of school fees for AIDS orphans will prevent them from being left without support, despairing of life, and even developing resentment against society and others, thereby maintaining social harmony and stability.

HIV antiretroviral treatment requires lifelong medication, the first-line drugs are free of charge in order to allow all AIDS patients can be treated, timely control of the disease does not progress, not infected more people, is worth it, and now the tuberculosis of the drug country is also free of charge Oh.

Yes, the vast majority is not their fault. If society is no longer understanding, tolerant, helpful and caring, without warmth, patients will die in despair.

It reflects the state's care for patients, reduces the burden of treatment on patients, cooperates with the medical sector in active treatment, improves the transparency of patients, and plays a positive role in preventing infections.

Because the state is motivated by humanitarian aid, after all, the people on the state are the ones who set up the regime for the people, so the state does not want to give up on any patient with a disease!

Is it the new coronavirus or HIV that is serious? HIV is currently incurable, will it become an extinct disease of the human race? If a person is infected with HIV and does not take medication, the virus will endlessly replicate and attack the body's immune system to mutate these. Therefore, if a person infected with HIV takes medicine, it will control the replication and mutation of these, and the transmission of HIV is through blood, sex, and so on. HIV blood does not survive in fruits and vegetables. If an HIV-infected person injects blood into all animals, it will live and spread. Some mammals, such as rats, rabbits, monkeys, snakes, dogs, wild boars. In the river turtle, crab, etc., flying in the sky, running on the ground inside all the animals, the animal reproduces again to increase the number of animals will be infinite replication. Outside running animals infected with HIV will not be able to take medication, can not be controlled, will be infinite replication and mutation, for fear that the years will be brought to the society of mankind may be no cure. So HIV is transmitted in animals, more terrible than human-to-human transmission, more serious pathogenic. HIV patients should never go this way. So we have to protect the privacy of HIV infected patients, care and care well. I have been working in a village health center for eight years. HIV-infected people had better farm less, for fear that when they accidentally have trauma, by chance they also have trauma on the farmed animals, for fear of unintentionally infecting the animals. Fear of giving humans no cure? Free distribution of HIV poisons in order not to scourge infected to others, infected people should never go to harm others. There are also a lot of HIV self-financed drugs, expensive, but some better than free drugs antiviral effects and fewer side effects, the average poor people can not afford to treat, take up ah ...... HIV may be on the human immune system is constantly harming, the more laborious and hard work, it will be invisible the more serious injuries to the body, infected not only to rest well, but also eat well! Nutrition to keep up, etc.

There is currently no cure for AIDS, but AIDS is not a disease that can wipe out the human race. I once read a study that simulated the spread of AIDS and the number of human beings, and the program, after several decades of calculations, found that the spread of AIDS to death did not have the same effect on human beings as the influenza virus and some other infectious diseases, such as the bubonic plague.

Although AIDS cannot be cured, the method of its transmission has now been clearly found, and with the vigorous popularization of science, the way of transmission of AIDS, even in the rural villages of the doctor's bulletin board inside, can be said to be widely known.

More and more people know that HIV is transmitted from mother to child, blood to blood and sexually. At the same time, more and more people know that the use of condoms can effectively prevent the spread of HIV. For those who are currently infected with HIV, it is also possible to try to prevent the fetus from becoming infected with HIV by means of interruption.

Although it can not be cured, but can achieve effective prevention, and for people who have been infected with AIDS, but also through the antiretroviral treatment to control the development of the disease, to improve the quality of life of patients, is to prolong the life of patients.

So although AIDS cannot be cured, it can be effectively prevented, and there are also medicines to control the condition, is to prolong life. So AIDS will not be the cause of our human extinction at all. As long as you clean yourself up, you can basically do away with AIDS.

Four exemptions and one care.

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