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AIDS
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VIH/Sida in Mali.

1,7% the rate of prevalence of VIH/sida for a population of 10,5 million D? inhabitants;
a cumulated number of the deaths which could be at nearly 170.000 in 2010 in case D? not controlled evolution;
a fall of L? life expectancy to L? horizon, etc
In comparison with the situation, AIDS N? is more one subject taboo and L? active engagement of the leaders D? opinion on various levels like the general awakening gains ground vis-a-vis the disease.

The report that we carried out in Bamako during the international seminar made us live testimonys moving in a strongly Islamized country. After the discovery of the first case of VIH/Sida in Mali in 1984, it was set up the national Programme of fight against AIDS (PNLS). Later in 1996 the Center of care, animation and councils (CESAC) was born in the optics of the assumption of responsibility of the people alive with HIV (PVVIH). Today main efforts were carried out, but the assumption of responsibility of the 750.000 HIV positive people still requires enormous sacrifices and the initiatives to reach that point do not miss.

Way remains to make

sensitizing on the pandemia of the AIDS in Mali east without slackening, and implies people living with HIV (PVVIH), of the religious dignitaries and many other physical personalities and morals. However way remains to make bus of the statistics show that 90,3% of the women stated to have intended to speak about the AIDS, but up to 45% of them are unaware of that it is possible to avoid it. In urban environment 97% intended some to speak and 22% are unaware of that it is possible to avoid it; while in rural medium if 88% intended some to speak up to 54% are unaware of that it is possible to avoid it. It arises from the investigations carried out into 2001 that the young people adopt behaviors at the risks:

65% of the young people have their first sexual relations before the 18 years age;
53% of the young people had sexual relations the month preceding the investigation;
nearly 20% of the boys had more than 3 sexual partners in the last 12 months preceding the investigation;
about half of the young people do not use the condom by confidence in their partner;
Worse two young people questioned out of three do not believe in the existence of the AIDS
this sad report are added the prostitution, the multiplicity of the sexual partners etc, who expose at the risks of expansion even an explosion of the epidemic of VIH/Sida in Mali in the years to come.
Right now ascribable mortality with the AIDS on the level of the young people and the adults (15-49 years) who constitute the productive force is felt.
Indeed, it is estimated that in 2010, one will count more than one ascribable death with the AIDS on 3 deaths observed on the level of the young people and the adults, that is to say 47.600 deaths in the event of not controlled evolution of the epidemic.
But with the acceleration of sensitizing by the PNLS and the CESAC, the awakening is growing and voluntarily but with anxiety people will be made detect with the CESAC which we visited.

Painful waiting

In the court of the Center of care, animation and councils (CESAC), the comings and goings of the visitors and the personnel seem ceaseless in this end of morning of Wednesday October 22, 2003. On benches, sitted at the shade of a hangar to the corrugated iron roof, men and women with the glance hagard, the sad mine, even painful, their open large eyes, the group of men and women fix who has just penetrated in the court. They are West African journalists who come to impregnate realities of the CESAC.

Led by Dr. Bintou Keita Dembélé, assistant director of the CESAC, these West African journalists in workshop in Bamako, came to visit one of the centers the Malians most famous for her actions in favour of the people living with the HIV. Here, côtoient a flood of people whose common denominator is “AIDS”. The ones track it; the others suffer from it terribly, only or in family.

Under the control of the director of the Center, Dr. Aliou Sylla, the group traverses the offices and the corridors of the center. Everywhere, it is the silence only disturbed by the explanations of Dr. Sylla and the noises of step of its hosts.
The patients waiting on the benches seem without voice. They hardly answered the greetings of the visitors, obviously tired by waiting (some have waited for more than three hours of time) and permanently haunted by the anguish to lose their life. There was no glimmer of hope on these faces.
At the laboratory of the center, the biologist Victoria Keita, a Russian married to a Malian, accomodates the group the smile with the lips. In a few minutes, it explains of what its work consists. On a question of a journalist, it affirms with a disconcerting certainty which the vaccine against the AIDS that everyone seeks will be discovered either by Russia, or by China.
“These two countries work in secrecy on the vaccine. They do not speak like the Westerners but I am sure that in one year or two, one of them will discover the vaccine ".

The CESAC: A reference as regards fight against the AIDS

the Center of care, animation and councils (CESAC) for the people living with VIH/Sida of Bamako was created in September 1996 with an aim of ensuring the assumption of responsibility of the people living with HIV (PVVIH). After seven businesss year, the CESAC “remains however available for the reception and the follow-up of the patients” entrusts Dr. Dembélé Bintou Keita to us, director assistant of the center.

The CESAC is an ONG born of the initiative of young doctors Malians. It draws today the detailed attention of the State, the partners and especially of a number growing people who recognize her utility in information, the medical and psychosocial support of the people infected and affected by VIH/Sida. “the CESAC is not a hospital structure, we refer the patients at the hospital”, indicates Dr. Dembélé. However, the CESAC? uvre for the best dealt with of the patients through the access to anti-rétroviraux. “At the beginning, people who presented themselves at the center were in phase of disease. Today, much from people come to see us either for councils, or for voluntary tracking “, affirms Dr. Dembélé.

Taking into consideration high cost of the monthly salary which is 90.000 Fcfa, (subsidized with height of 50 percent by the State), the CESAC militates for a plea near the government for the assumption of responsibility of the patients at an all-in price of 4500 Fcfa per month.
The CESAC assists the patients materially. The emergencies are managed by funds of a company of assistance on the initiative Community. The funds in question is given to make it possible these sick recipients of the AIDS to devote itself to generating activities of incomes. There exists with the CESAC a school programme of support of the orphans and children infected and affected by VIH/Sida. The patients themselves profit every Friday from a nutritional assistance in the court of the center. Here are as many efforts and of sacrifices that is given a devoted personnel which testifies to an exceptional affection with the PVVIH.

“To deal with the AIDS constitutes the best means of prevention”, seems to be the philosophy which guides the action of the CESAC. In 1997, the center detected 1093 people including 614 HIV positives. In 2002, out of 2637 detected people, 1657 are HIV positive. Is the work undertaken by the CESAC carried out without slackening by a personnel made up of 17 permanent and 15 frees-lance (doctors, pharmacists, psychologists, nutritionnists?) who are given with love and sacrifice in the treatment of PVVIH/Sida, in spite of the inaccessibility of anti-retroviraux by the great number of the patients.

Difficult access to anti-retroviraux, an obstacle to be surmounted

In Mali, like the other African countries, the access to anti-retroviraux (ARV) is reserved to privileged taking into consideration excessively high cost. Nevertheless, the political good-will is posted and of the efforts are deployed continuously for the access to the ARV of the greatest number.
Doctor Idrissa Cissé, person in charge for transfusional safety in medium of care to the national Programme of fight against AIDS (PNLS), and person in charge also for the Programme of prevention of the transmission mother-child of VIH/Sida and the Initiative Malian of access to ARV (IMAARV), entrust to us that to date, the State Malian already spent more than 3,3 billion FCFA in three years for the assumption of responsibility approximately 750.000 people living with the HIV. “In spite of that, the State is not able yet to deal with all the patients”, specifies it. The Cost of treatment by ARV of a patient amounts to 90.000 F CFA per month, subsidized to a total value of 50% by the State Malian. Even at this price, the majority of the patients is still in the incapacity to face there.
“We fight to bring back this amount to 5.000 F CFA per month and patient, the ideal being to arrive at the exemption from payment of the treatment”, affirms Doctor Cissé. However, the treatment of the patients by ARV does not cover yet all the extent of the own territory but the PNLS works for the extension of the Program. In this moment of the doctors are in formation inside the country for the assumption of responsibility of the patients.
Besides there exists at the top of the State a real political good-will to fight against VIH/sida. With proof, the Head of the State Malian, the general Amadou Toumani Touré chairs in person the High-Council of fight against the AIDS which is an institution charged to make all the important decisions prevention fight against VIH/Sida. This body is relayed by the national Committee of fight against the AIDS at the ministerial level, the office of coordination (the PNLS) which has its démenbrements on the levels regional, local, and communal. There is also an Islamic High-council of fight against the AIDS which gathers Ulémas.
The AIDS in Mali is not only the business of the PNLS. The tradithérapeutes, ONGs and various associations are also engaged in this fight, “hardest, it is the lack of coordination of the activities between all these structures”, deplores Dr. Cissé. The fight against the AIDS, says it is a long-term fight, because “the pandémie' does not have a border”.

What to retain experiment Malian?

The policy Malian in the fight against VIH/sida is exemplary. The accessibility to information, the availability of the people resources, testimony with face discovered of the PVVIH and their implication in sensitizing, sensitizing in the places of worships, the asset of the subsidy of the ARV by the State and the continuation of the fight for their availability for all the patients with 5.000 F CFA per month, but especially engagement without reserve of the doctors of the CESAC to take care and assistance to the patients to residence etc, are as many strategies developed in Mali to face the disease, we noted during reports.


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kabisco DOUMBIA
December 10, 2007 | 4:31 PM
SIDA
Le VIH/Sida au Mali.

1,7 % le taux de prévalence du VIH/sida pour une population de 10,5 millions d’habitants ;
un nombre cumulé des décès qui pourrait se situer à près de 170 000 en 2010 en cas d’évolution non maîtrisée ;
une baisse de l’espérance de vie à l’horizon, etc.
Au regard de la situation, le sida n’est plus un sujet tabou et l’engagement actif des leaders d’opinion à divers niveaux comme la prise de conscience générale gagne du terrain face à la maladie.

Le reportage que nous avons effectué à Bamako au cours du séminaire international nous a fait vivre des témoignages émouvant dans un pays fortement islamisé. Après la découverte du premier cas de VIH/Sida au Mali en 1984, il a été mis en place le Programme national de lutte contre le Sida (PNLS). Plus tard en 1996 le Centre de soins, d'animation et de conseils (CESAC) a vu le jour dans l'optique de la prise en charge des personnes vivants avec le VIH (PVVIH). Aujourd'hui des grands efforts ont été réalisés, mais la prise en charge des 750 000 personnes séropositives nécessite encore d'énormes sacrifices et les initiatives pour y parvenir ne manquent pas.

kabisco DOUMBIA
December 10, 2007 | 4:32 PM
SIDA
Le VIH/Sida au Mali.

1,7 % le taux de prévalence du VIH/sida pour une population de 10,5 millions d’habitants ;
un nombre cumulé des décès qui pourrait se situer à près de 170 000 en 2010 en cas d’évolution non maîtrisée ;
une baisse de l’espérance de vie à l’horizon, etc.
Au regard de la situation, le sida n’est plus un sujet tabou et l’engagement actif des leaders d’opinion à divers niveaux comme la prise de conscience générale gagne du terrain face à la maladie.

Le reportage que nous avons effectué à Bamako au cours du séminaire international nous a fait vivre des témoignages émouvant dans un pays fortement islamisé. Après la découverte du premier cas de VIH/Sida au Mali en 1984, il a été mis en place le Programme national de lutte contre le Sida (PNLS). Plus tard en 1996 le Centre de soins, d'animation et de conseils (CESAC) a vu le jour dans l'optique de la prise en charge des personnes vivants avec le VIH (PVVIH). Aujourd'hui des grands efforts ont été réalisés, mais la prise en charge des 750 000 personnes séropositives nécessite encore d'énormes sacrifices et les initiatives pour y parvenir ne manquent pas.
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