Tropical disease experts report missed opportunity to transform global HIV/AIDS fight
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 19:30
in Health & Medicine
Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).