International Work

We are very lucky in this country, we have a lot of drugs to treat HIV,  they are simple to take and relatively non toxic.  Others in the world have not been quite so lucky.   There has been a great deal of movement in the roll out of HIV drugs throughout the world,  but often the drugs available are drugs we don’t utilize in this country because of associated toxicities.     To try to help with this reality,  St Stephen’s AIDS Trust runs many educational programmes in Africa, Asia, Libya and China,    to try to improve the standard of patient care with the treatment resources available.   We have also worked hard with many pharmaceutical companies to get newer drugs into other countries and we have been successful,   many national treatment guidelines in Africa and Asia have now changed to include these drugs.

We are very grateful to the many pharmaceutical companies who generously support our international work. One very successful programme has been running in Vietnam for the last 5 years, with teaching and workshops held in the rural highlands of the country where HIV is prevalent among the many migrant workers. Another very valuable programme is the SpR Exchange Programme, with doctors from the UK going to HIV specialist centres in Brazil, Zambia, China and Vietnam