Barriers to progress – Treatment activists’ response to WHO HIV treatment guidelines 2015
International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) - The new WHO consolidated treatment guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs are also welcomed by international civil society organizations such as ITPC.
However, they point out that mainly three factors represent significant barriers to successful implementation:
- "Community-led treatment education is inadequately supported and needs to be scaled up;
- People living in middle income countries are denied affordable access to essential medicines, such as dolutegravir;
- Availability of routine viral load monitoring remains patchy and limited in too many countries."