Sandy Thurman, who developed AIDS policy for the White House, is pictured here with children in Kitwe, Zambia.
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| AIDS and the Developing World: 25 Years Later |
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| Twenty-five years ago this month, reports surfaced in the United States of the first cases of HIV/AIDS. Since then, AIDS has spread worldwide, overwhelmingly affecting the poor. Almost all of the nearly 40 million people infected with HIV live in the developing world. But most of those countries have very few resources to fight the epidemic. Sandy Thurman headed up AIDS policy during the Clinton administration, and now she’s president of the US-based International AIDS Trust. By cell phone from Nairobi, Kenya,she told us where the number of people infected with HIV is growing the fastest. |
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