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On our way to ending AIDS

On our way to ending AIDS

The Clinton Foundation, 31 July 2015 - "My first encounter with AIDS came in the 1980s, when I was governor of Arkansas. A close friend had contracted the virus, and I’ll never forget visiting him in the hospital. His face and body were covered in the black lesions that were the hallmark of Kaposi’s sarcoma and, without the benefit of antiretroviral therapy, he died not long after my visit." (Article by Bill Clinton, Founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States of America)

(...) If we’ve learned anything, it’s that when we neglect lethal infectious diseases, the problem will become bigger, more costly and more difficult to solve in the long run. We’ve seen this most recently with the Ebola crisis in West Africa. If we had responded to the AIDS crisis sooner and on a wider scale, the epidemic might have been managed with less loss of life. Instead, it became one of the most expensive and difficult undertakings in public health history."

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