IT IS easy to imagine the AIDS pandemic is here to stay, as big a blight on human welfare as smallpox once was. Yet we eventually beat smallpox when we organised globally to distribute an effective vaccine.
It is time to start thinking about HIV in the same way, now that drugs have turned infection from a death sentence to a manageable condition. These drugs can also slow the spread of the virus. And as our Instant Expert reports, we are starting to develop other ways to curb the spread of HIV.
For now the pandemic is still…
