1. Too much morality, too little sense.
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AIDS , *HIV , *EPIDEMICS , *POOR people , *WORLD health , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation - Abstract
The article presents an editorial on the global fight against AIDS. The world is not winning the war against AIDS. By the end of this year, three million poor people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are supposed to be receiving the treatment they need. So far, though, barely one million are. At present, about forty million people are living with HIV, some five million are infected with it each year and over three million die from it. The human and economic cost is huge. India may well have more infected people than any other country. China's epidemic has the potential to dwarf all others. The lesson for rich and poor alike is that to contain AIDS morality must take second place.
- Published
- 2005