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.
In Brief
WASHINGTON, Jul 6 (OneWorld.net) - Health and human rights advocates have applauded moves by the U.S. government to repeal a 15-year-old ban on travel to the United States by HIV-positive foreign nationals.