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From: joya banerjee [ profile ]
Subject: Economist: The 30 Years War
Sent: Jun 13th, 2011 - 06:01:15
  The 30 years war
Hard pounding is gradually bringing AIDS under control

Jun 2nd 2011


Excerpts:

On June 5th, a little over three weeks after HPTN’s announcement, AIDS
will be 30 years old—or, more accurately, it will be 30 years since
America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported a
cluster of unusual infections in Los Angeles that were the first
medically recognised cases. On June 8th a meeting of the United
Nations’ General Assembly, expected to be attended by 40 heads of
state and government, will discuss progress in fighting the pandemic
and wrestle with the question of what to do next. HPTN052, as the
trial in question is known, points the way.


...............No one likes to be seen as mean and so, in a decade of
rising prosperity, politicians put their hands in their taxpayers’
pockets and donated generously to the cause.

This time, the atmosphere is different. It is still the case that no
one wants to be seen as mean, but the game of chicken is now the other
way round. Then, each act of generosity made it harder for others to
refuse. Now, each withdrawal from the fray makes another’s easier.



Full Story:

http://www.economist.com/node/18772276


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