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"At Front Lines, AIDS War is Falling Apart," was the disheartening headline for a recent New York Times story (May 9, 2010).  The story went on to explain...

"Uganda is the first and most obvious example of how the war on global AIDS is falling apart.

"The last decade has been what some doctors call a 'golden window' for treatment.  Drugs that once cost $12,000 fell to less than $100, and the world was willing to pay.  In Uganda, where fewer than 10,000 were on [AIDS] drugs a decade ago, nearly 200,000 now are, largely as a result of American generosity.  But the golden window is closing.

"Uganda is the first country where major clinics routinely turn people away, but it will not be the last.  In Kenya, next door, grants to keep 200,000 on drugs will expire soon.  An American-run program in Mozambique has been told to stop opening clinics.  There have been drug shortages in Nigeria and Swaziland;  Tanzania and Botswana are trimming treatment slots..."

"The collapse was set off by the global recession's effect on donors and by a growing sense that more lives would be saved by fighting other cheaper diseases.  Even as the number of people infected by AIDS grows by a million a year, money for treatment has stopped growing."

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