NY Times: At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart, by Donald G. McNeil Jr.:
KAMPALA, Uganda
. . . Uganda is the first and most obvious example of how the war on global AIDS is falling apart.
The last decade has been what some doctors call a “golden window” fortreatment. Drugs that once cost $12,000 a year fell to less than $100,and the world was willing to pay.
In Uganda, where fewer than 10,000 were on drugs a decade ago, nearly200,000 now are, largely as a result of American generosity. But thegolden window is closing.
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