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World Must Scale Up AIDS Fight, Even As Donors Scale Back
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe writes in a Los Angeles Times opinion piece that "amid all the good news" about HIV prevention recently presented at the 6th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, "one stubborn fact was hard to ignore: AIDS remains a metaphor for inequality." With discrepancies in access to HIV treatment and prevention between developed and developing countries, "[i]t is hard not to conclude from all this that life is not valued equally across the world. This is morally wrong and unacceptable," he writes.
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