World AIDS Day: Shifting Policies in South Africa and the U.S.
The Health Blog normally ignores disease awareness days, weeks and months as pseudo-events designed to drum up media coverage. But a few nuggets pegged to this year’s World AIDS Day (today) seem noteworthy:
South Africa will provide free treatment for all HIV-positive infants under age 1 and expand treatment for others including HIV-positive pregnant women, President Jacob Zuma said. The announcement is significant not only because South Africa has the world’s largest population of HIV-positive people (5.7 million), but also because Zuma’s predecessor repeatedly denied that there was a link between HIV and AIDS. The U.S. said it would… Continue reading


