the economist.it – 23/7/2016
Rallying the troops
AIDS workers face setbacks, both epidemiological and financial. But they are about to be handed new weapons to carry on the fight
VETERANS of the war on AIDS wear the medal stamped “Durban” with pride. It was in that city, in 2000, that the most effective of the International AIDS Conferences was held. The field’s bigwigs agreed that everything possible should be done to make the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that had been invented a few years earlier available to all who needed them, and began to create the institutions that would distribute them.
In retrospect, it sounds an obvious thing to do. But in those days ARVs were costly, and ways of getting them to people in poor countries nearly non-existent. The ramp-up therefore took time, and deaths from AIDS continued to rise. According to UNAIDS, the United Nations agency charged …
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