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After decades of research, why is AIDS still rampant?

  • Written by Maureen Miller, Professor, Columbia University Medical Center
imageAIDS march in Los Angeles. Carlos Delgado/AP

Today is World AIDS Day. More than three decades after the virus was first discovered, 5,753 people will become HIV infected today.

About the same number will become infected tomorrow, and the same number the day after that. While it is true that two-thirds of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan...

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