Hopeful peice on AIDS

from the economist:
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14952992&source=features_box_main

"ALL epidemics run their course. AIDS will be no exception."

"The most important figure in the report, which was published on Tuesday November 24th, is 17%. This is the estimated drop in the annual number of new infections compared with 2001, the year that the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed."

"Over the five years to 2008, the report claims, the number of AIDS-related deaths around the world fell by 10%, though it still stands at about 2m annually."

"the strategic deployment of antiretrovirals to pregnant women has, the report estimates, stopped some 200,000 mother-to-child infections in the 12 years to 2008."

The report is only "cautiously optimistic". Strangely, the rate of infection has been on the rise since 2001 in the Americas:



Be careful, guys!
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