Full access to antiretroviral drugs would cut AIDS deaths drastically in South Africa
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Arpita Mukherjee , Kolkata: Mar 29 2008
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Approximately 5 to 6 million South Africans are infected with HIV. Nineteen percent of the country’s adult population aged between 15 and 49 carries the deadly virus. Unfortunately, only one-third of the HIV infected South Africans have access to...
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Maynard maynard_delfin.insta.. Apr 5 2008
Manila, Philippines
Prevention is better than cure. Access to HIV drugs is only halfway to preventing the rate of AIDs’ mortality.

Investing on education and media campaigns may be expensive but these have lasting effects. The HIV-infected should be the ones to be at the forefront in teaching the uninfected how to prevent the disease. In this way, others will seriously listen to their reminders.
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