Operational plan for comprehensive HIV and AIDS care and ...

11.2 The goal of the Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care and Treatment
Programme is to provide all South Africans and permanent residents who
require comprehensive care and treatment for HIV and AIDS equitable
access to this programme within their local municipal area within a period
of five years.
12. These goals represent important milestones in the development of the programme
to progressively realize the service needs and requirements of all South Africans
and permanent residents within the available means and resources.
13. The goals also represent an unambiguous commitment of the South African
government to care for people living with HIV infection and the impact of AIDS.
14. The achievement of these goals and targets is subject to the implementation of a
holistic and integrated programme to fight the spread of HIV infection and the
impact of AIDS, and the availability of adequate resources to strengthen the
national health system to provide this essential service.
Continuum of Care
15. The model developed by the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA2000)
projects that approximately 400,000 of the HIV-positive population will develop
an AIDS-defining illness during 2003 (this figure excludes members of medical
schemes that might require ARVs) 2 .
16. The objective of this operational plan therefore is to ensure that by 2009 all
individuals requiring treatment for AIDS will be able to access comprehensive care
and treatment.
17. According to the ASSA2000 model, it is estimated that by then about 1.4 million
people will require ARV therapy.
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