2012 this year’s World Day of AIDS is to “Getting to Zero.” This means zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination against people with HIV and zero AIDS-related deaths.
In recent years there have been many advances: AIDS is no longer a death sentence. When the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) embarked on this struggle in 2000 – providing treatment to a small number of people in Thailand, South Africa and Cameroon – very few had access to treatment in developing countries.
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