Scarce money, few drugs, little hope

Wednesday March 01 by Claudia bournecnn
State of the art treatment has so increased the quality of AIDS patients' lives in the industrialized world that complacency has begun to set in. But that is not the case in Africa. "When a baby gets bad," Dr. Iwan Bekker, head of pediatrics at a South African hospital told AIDS Weekly, "we won't admit it for a second time, but will tell the mother to take it home and let it die."





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