Differing indications

An estimated 900 000 Ethiopians had died from AIDS by 2003, a scant 17 years after the first report of HIV infection in Ethiopia, according to UNAIDS. In 2007 alone, 67 000 people died of AIDS, making it the leading cause of mortality for the nation. I think the [George Bush] initiative is the most moral thing the Bush administration ever did and go down as his legacy in African- HIV history. The availability of highlyactive antiretroviral treatment includes both first line and second line treatment for both adults and children. All medications are provided free. People also get their CD4 count done for free, but have to pay for viral load determination on their own, although there is a centre that recently started providing this free as well. Resistance testing (genotype) is not performed, so clinicians have to depend on patient's CD4 count and clinical situation to change regimens.