MacArthur Fellow Mark Harrington writes in The Atlantic: "Not only is the U.S. [aids] plan not on track to achieve its goals, but they are themselves far less ambitious than what has already been achieved in the past decade in some of the world's poorest countries, such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, or Zambia." Look at this chart lists twenty-five nations -- including India, Thailand, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Ghana -- where new hiv infections fell by more than 50%, while in the US new infection rates have "hovered around 50,000 per year for two decades." Harrington attended a White House event where the administration talked about commitment to ending the pandemic but no official mentioned drug users or reauthorizing Ryan White or PEPFAR. Harrington adds, "In the United States, only 25 percent of the 1.2 million HIV positive people are on effective ART with an undetectable viral load. Only 33 percent are retained in care...Each year Obama has been president, he's cut funding to the CDC and to the TB program."
The magazine has five other articles about aids:
Kenyon Farrow's "Young, Gay, Black -- and at Risk for HIV"
Rebecca Chao on China's Surprising Assault on HIV/AIDS—and a Cultural Taboo
Brian Fung's The Global Geography of HIV: 20 Years of Change—in 1 GIF
And two from John-Manuel Andriote, "Should Everyone HIV+ Be Required to Disclose That to Every Sexual Partner?" (45 states have made failure to disclose a criminal offense) and The Prospects for a 'Sterilizing' HIV Cure.
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