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| Medicine Assistance Scheme |
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| The People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
Medicine Assistance Scheme is a special grant-making programme
by the Malaysian AIDS Foundation (MAF). |
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| Initiated in 1998, the Scheme provides
poor Malaysians living with HIV/AIDS the opportunity to undergo
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)
with the primary objectives of helping them prolong and improve
their quality of life. |
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| Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART)
is the current state-of-the-art approach in HIV clinical management
that combines two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
(NRTIs) with drugs from another class such as non-nucleoside
reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) or protease inhibitors
(PIs). |
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| Such therapy treatment has been shown to
produce a more potent and sustained suppressive effect on HIV
replication. By doing so, the HIV viral load will be kept at
low and sometimes, undetectable levels which in turn will improve
patient survival. |
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| The MAF provides one antiretroviral medication
(ARV) to each selected patient based on the knowledge that the
Government provides the second ARV for free. It is hoped that
the patient is able to purchase the third ARV to enable him/her
to undergo HAART. MAF will also provide 3 viral load tests per
12 months. |
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| The duration of sponsorship for each phase
of the PLWHA Medicine Assistance Scheme is for a period of 12
months. |
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| The MAF will make attempts to ensure continuation
for the following years based on the Progress Report for each
patient and the availability of funds. |
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| The Scheme presently supports a total of
100 Malaysians. They are nominated by their doctors based on
certain medical and clinical criteria and who have access to
monthly household incomes of RM2000 and below. |
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| Our recipients are fathers and mothers,
sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. |
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- " Average of RM2,880,000.00 ( 1998 -2006)
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