World leaders aimed to ensure universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention,
treatment, and care by 2010, but they have not provided the funds to
accomplish those goals. Until a scientific or financial breakthrough is
made the disease will continue to ravage poorer countries and
communities and undermine efforts to reduce poverty worldwide.
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A group of indigenous Chileans -- who are often excluded from their country's AIDS prevention efforts -- are working to bring a health center to their isolated island and ensure their government provides them life-saving services.