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Pillar Desouza & Bernardo Miranda Columbia Besides the fact that HIV/AIDS is the number one most infected virus in South America, it is very important for the us to address the committee concerning this issue specifically in Columbia. 170,000 people are living with aids in Columbia. Our government officials have been trying everything from filing suits in our courts to compel the government to authorize price lowering generic competition with Abott Laboratories on making medicine available for everyone. Even though there is no cure, there are certain drugs prescribed to citizens infected increasing their chances of survival during the AIDS Stage of the virus. Being a developing country we find ourselves in need to address this policy. For every two men with HIV one women is infected in Columbia. Another issue connecting to this is how women in Columbia have been known to fail to protect themselves adequately. Sociologists have insisted that Columbian girls are often pressured into sex with their boyfriends at a very young age, and they grow up knowing that their man will leave them if they do not sleep with him. The girls need to be more educated to avoid the pressure of their boyfriends and to practice safe sex. ATAP is a program designed to provide tree antiretroviral ( ARU) therapy to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who do not have access to healthcare coverage and cannot afford the cost of their treatment in developing countries around the world, and it also helps with HIV AIDS treatment planning and medication resource management. According to the BMI's Burden of Diseases Database, the number of disability adjusted life years lost to HIV/AIDS in Columbia will rise from 232,613 in 2008 to 402,421 by 2030. Putting that aside the Columbian government and Abbot Laboratories are still in disagreement over the price of drug makers HIV medicine. Since Columbia is a middle income country, we are eligible to purchase the drug at discounted price of 1,000 per patient per year, but the issue involving this is how Abbot says this price does not apply to the private, for profit healthcare management organization, who are the majority. Columbia would like to see the international community’s reach out to the nations without education on HIV. These countries have a hard time with protecting against this deadly disease. With more knowledge on how it can be contracted and the procedures to take care of it would lower the amounts of people infected. As for our native community, we would like to see our people more educated as well. It’s important that we work together to prevent others from contracting this disease. The school system should implement education about it in classes. It would also be great if the community enforces getting tested more often. There are ways to end the increase of HIV and it takes a community to work together and make a change.