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40 years of the HIV/AIDS response

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The Biggest Change in Byrotherapy in the West

Africa was the most affected place. There wasn't any treatment. People were still dying in extraordinary numbers, leaving all these orphans. It took a global commitment to to making any byrotherapy available. A change in the way things were funded and structured to create this two tered pricing system. The realization that annie virels could also be used for prevention. So we did that first with prevention o mother to child transmission. We started to reduce pediatric aids, which was a terrible disease.

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