BMJ  2007;334 (2 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.39230.775660.2C

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Much about HIV

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Sometimes we deliberately build an issue around a theme; sometimes a theme just emerges. Some craft went into the cluster of articles that we have in this week's issue on HIV, but mostly it just happened.

The part that just happened is in the news—and is mostly gloomy. In his speech on HIV to the UN general assembly the UN secretary general points out that the numbers of people with the disease are still rising: 40 million people are living with HIV world wide; 8000 die and 12 000 become infected every day; and for every person who starts treatment with antiretrovirals another six become infected (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39226.442650.DB). Although the numbers of people getting antiretroviral drugs is increasing, Médicins Sans Frontières says that in parts of southern Africa there are simply too few health workers to deliver the drugs to those who need them (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39227.656481.DB). Its report . . . [Full text of this article]

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