News ages of health workers. In response, the WHO last week launched a new plan, entitled
“Treat, Train, Retain.” Meanwhile, disturbing new research revealed that since 2000 …

25 p.: graphs, maps, tablesHuge progress has been made since 2000 and millions of lives
have been saved. But there are still important milestones to reach, barriers to break and …

Access to HIV treatment globally, and especially in countries hardest hit by HIV, has
increased dramatically over the last decade. A public-health approach that optimizes …

373 p.: ill., graphs, maps, tables" Progress in prevention and treatment is faltering around the
world, putting millions of people in grave danger. Eastern Europe and central Asia, Latin …

orld AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st.“Act Aware” is this year's theme. People
around the world are encouraged to 1) take action to tackle HIV prejudice, and 2) protect …

It is fair to say that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is unprecedented for a number of different
reasons. As another World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, it behooves us to take …

AIDS is a continuing worldwide health crisis. Over 25,000,000 people have died from AIDS,
and more than 33,000,000 are infected today. While treatments in the developed world have …

The national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi is based on a public health
approach, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful DOTS (directly …

The argument was simple, even brutal: there was no point giving anti-AIDS drugs to patients
in Africa, because they wouldn't be able to stick with their treatment plans. Worse, the …

AIDS PREVENTION AND TREAT-ment efforts are helping to slow the spread of HIV in some
countries. But millions of new infections still occur each year and only a tiny fraction of the …