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Optimism and the HIV/AIDS epidemic

lborkowski | September 18, 2012

By Sara Gorman Recent biomedical advances in AIDS research have allowed political figures such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to proclaim that the phenomenon of a generation without HIV/AIDS is within reach. But how well-founded is this optimism? A recent editorial in The New England Journal of Medicine asks this very question and concludes that there is ample reason for scientific optimism but that the global resources needed to achieve the eradication of this illness are simply not being deployed properly. Yet the science itself does not indicate that the possibility of the…

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