Global AIDS: Triumphs and Failures
Posted by internationalh on June 24, 2006
Robert Weissman pens an interesting account of the failures and triumps of our fight against the meddling virus.
There has been amazing progress in addressing global AIDS over the past five years. Activist pressure and generic competition has driven the price of AIDS drugs down by more than 98 percent, making it possible for donors to invest money in treatment to keep people alive. An HIV-positive diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence.
Check it out here: The Huffington Post
Price-Rx said
… and rightfully so… people lately have been turning the AIDS disease into something that they could benefit from, such as extra media mileage (for politicians) and extra profits… an HIV diagnosis should not be a cause for people to lose hope as long as there are other people who are willing to give it…