A STAGGERING 40 million people are now infected with HIV, 2.5 million of them children. But amid the grim statistics there are signs that maybe, just maybe, the tide is beginning to turn. Antiviral drugs are at last getting cheaper and money is beginning to flow from western governments and foundations in the quantity needed to give people access to the drugs.
These are grounds for congratulating the World Health Organization and UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that monitors the disease. Yet treating infected people is only one front in this war: the second, no less vital campaign is to…
