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Fighting HIV/AIDS

PROLOGUE

The Difficult But Necessary Choices In Fighting HIV/AIDS

Twenty-eight years after AIDS was identified, the pandemic continues to present the world with a profoundly disturbing set of decisions—moral, ethical, political, economic, scientific, and practical. The papers in this cluster vividly bring these choices to life. Rising prevalence of HIV infection, coupled with the current global economic slowdown, means that the world faces the prospect of drastically inadequate funding for HIV in both the short and long run. The message for global policymakers is clear: Business as usual is not an option.

Stefano Bertozzi, Tyler Martz, and Peter Piot cover the history of the pandemic and the alternating optimism . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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