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Global Fund Donations Needed To Support Scaling Up AIDS Treatment
With the new knowledge that providing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to people living with HIV "contribut[es] to a sharp slowdown in the spread of the virus," "scaling up treatment now may prove to be the least expensive option if we want to bring this deadly pandemic, which still infects 1.8 million people every year, under control," Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria writes in the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog."
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