The AIDS challenge
By Michael Gerson | Monday, October 8, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…More than 2 million men, women, and children are now getting AIDS treatment in the developing world – up from close to zero five or six years ago. Health professionals have demonstrated, against considerable skepticism, that complex drug therapies are possible in impoverished countries. And America has taken undeniable – even though broadly denied – leadership in these efforts, currently providing more funding to fight AIDS in the developing world than all other nations combined.
This moral achievement is impressive, until it is compared with the scale of the problem – about 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2006, there were more than 4 million new infections, far outpacing the growth of treatment…Efforts to treat AIDS have increased massively, dramatically – and we are still losing ground….”…BS
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