Finally: hints of HIV turnaround in South Africa

It’s about time that this country hard-hit by AIDS promised help for the afflicted, says Apoorva Mandavilli.

HIV causes AIDS. That’s not news to you or me, but shockingly it has taken years for the government in South Africa — where about 1,000 people die of AIDS every day — to acknowledge that fact and pledge to provide medicines.

Read the column here.

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Finally: hints of HIV turnaround in South Africa

It’s about time that this country hard-hit by AIDS promised help for the afflicted, says Apoorva Mandavilli.

HIV causes AIDS. That’s not news to you or me, but shockingly it has taken years for the government in South Africa — where about 1,000 people die of AIDS every day — to acknowledge that fact and pledge to provide medicines.

Read the column here.

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