US President's top adviser has said the world is losing the battle against AIDS/HIV

[babylonsister]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6911736.stm

World 'losing fight against Aids'

Dr Fauci says there must be greater effort to boost prevention
US President George W Bush's top adviser on HIV/Aids has said the world is losing the battle against the virus.

Dr Anthony Fauci told a conference in Sydney that progress had been made, but more people were being infected with HIV than were being treated.

"For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game," he said.

Dr Fauci was speaking at a gathering of the world's leading HIV/Aids experts.

Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world had access to the anti-retroviral drugs that help treat the deadly virus.

Last year, the figure had risen to 2.2 million, but new infections continue to outpace the global effort to treat and educate patients.

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Compare~who to believe?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1404509

[beyurslf]

1. Believe both. The other article says for treated people.

This article is talking those without treatment and those without education to prevent infection.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. K&R. I was just about to post my own when I saw "Compare~who to believe?"

Granted, there are different stats being compared here ... but I can't help but wonder if Bu**sh**co isn't just employing its usual tactic of ratcheting down expectations ... claim things are really bad, no matter what they do, use that as an excuse for doing next to nothing, having it get worse, and then ... (lather, rinse, repeat)