1. The future of AIDS: a still-unfolding global challenge
The world is approaching a moment of truth in the still-unfolding response to the AIDS epidemic.
The worldwide mobilization to combat a disease unheard of 30 years ago has generated historic achievements. For the first time, complex, lifelong management of a chronic disease has been widely implemented in low-income countries, averting millions of deaths.1 Prevention services have also been introduced in antenatal settings to prevent infants from becoming infected, and the overall number of new HIV infections in 2009 for both children and adults was more than 20% lower worldwide than in 1997.2
The pandemic has also elicited an unprecedented global mobilization of political and financial ...
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