06/07/2006

25 Years of AIDS in Review

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Loretta McLaughlin, a senior fellow at the Harvard AIDS Initiative, has written a short 25 year review in The Boston Globe on AIDS and its current status
Today, as when it was officially first recognized on June 5, 1981, this vicious infectious agent remains unique even within its own classification of retroviruses. More is now known about it than any other microbe. Nonetheless, this anniversary in no way marks the end of the Age of AIDS, though it may mark the end of the beginning.

It's a sobering reminder that the hope of Nyumbani and the vision of Kitui meet great needs.