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End of AIDS is in sight, if funds are there for it

  January 22, 2012

Just 30 years after AIDS made its deadly debut, a future without the disease is finally within reach. One of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2011 was the discovery that antiretroviral drugs don’t just prolong the lives of people with HIV, they also render infected people virtually non-contagious. Putting people on these life-saving medicines early enough could effectively end the spread of HIV.

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