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.
Human rights advocates praised the U.S. Senate for reauthorizing
the president's international HIV/AIDS relief bill yesterday, which included a provision to repeal a decades-old nationwide ban on HIV-positive visitors and immigrants.