Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), Falmouth 5,49, UCT Med School Campus, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa.
Global Health. 2011 Aug 26;7:31. doi: 10.1186/1744-8603-7-31.
HIV/AIDS has always been one of the most thoroughly global of diseases. In the era of widely available anti-retroviral therapy (ART), it is also commonly recognised as a chronic disease that can be successfully managed on a long-term basis. This article examines the chronic character of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and highlights some of the changes we might expect to see at the global level as HIV is increasingly normalised as "just another chronic disease". The article also addresses the use of this language of chronicity to interpret the HIV/AIDS pandemic and calls into question some of the consequences of an uncritical acceptance of concepts of chronicity.
艾滋病毒/艾滋病一直是最具全球性的疾病之一。在广泛提供抗逆转录病毒疗法(ART)的时代,它也被普遍认为是一种可以长期成功管理的慢性病。本文探讨了艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行的慢性特征,并强调了随着艾滋病毒逐渐被视为“又一种慢性病”而变得正常化,我们可能会在全球范围内看到的一些变化。本文还探讨了使用这种慢性语言来解释艾滋病毒/艾滋病大流行,并对不加批判地接受慢性概念的一些后果提出了质疑。