The Worldwide Fight Against HIV/AIDS Just Scored a Major Win

[eridani]

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/07/16/millions-treated-for-HIV-UNAIDS?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-07-16

The global goal to provide HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has been met—and the milestone even came ahead of schedule, UNAIDS announced in a report released this week, highlighting enormous progress made in achieving one of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals.

“We are on the way to a generation free of AIDS,” declared U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was speaking at a global development summit in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Tuesday. “Now we must commit to ending the AIDS epidemic.”
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So, Why Should You Care? This is a huge boost in the number of people around the world receiving much-needed antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment. Comparatively, fewer than 700,000 people in the early aughts had access to treatment. Several factors have led to the success, including legislation allowing countries to produce their own copies of drugs at lower prices and increased global investment. Back in 2000, eight pills per day could cost a patient $10,000 per year, thanks to large drug companies with a monopoly on pricing and distribution; today, those medicines can be purchased for $100 per year, according to the report. Despite this progress, however, nearly 37 million people around the world live with HIV, 70 percent of whom reside in sub-Saharan Africa (66 percent of all new HIV infections occurred in the region in 2014). In addition, new infections in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa have increased by 25 percent since 2000.

[shenmue]

1. Yay!

[eridani]

3. Contraception and abortion are much better solutions n/t

[beam me up scottie]

4. Wow.

[bvf]

5. Going for his/her hide #4... n/t.

[beam me up scottie]

8. I had to walk away.

That's one of the worst things I've ever seen posted here.

[951-Riverside]

9. We either cure HIV/AIDS and cause a population boom...

which will cause us to burn more fossil fuels, release more CO2, create more landfills and cause us to use more resources to sustain the population and ultimately increase global temperatures which will turn the planet into a barren rock like Mars or we could let nature take its course.

Its a tough choice but its either do or die for this planet.

[beam me up scottie]

10. Because those are the only two options?

"let nature take its course"

[Turbineguy]

15. Does this extend

to yourself and your family and friends or is it only for "those people"?

[NuclearDem]

16. Fuck off.

How the fuck are you still posting here?

[AngryOldDem]

17. Thomas Malthus, is that you?

Jesus.

[Comrade Grumpy]

18. You should lead by example.

[tomm2thumbs]

11. was on Jury to block but has not appeared

Could be there is an issue with the jury system right now -- have not receive notice the jury was completed

[beam me up scottie]

12. Must be, how long should it take?

Jeebus freakin Cripes.

[bvf]

13. This just in...

randomly-selected Jury of DU members completed their review of this alert at Fri Jul 17, 2015, 03:32 AM, and voted5-2 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: BS
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: The topic is about breakthroughs on treating people with HIV/AIDS. Poster can start own posting on population growth impacts.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: I think it's rather trollish behavior to jump into an HIV/AIDS good news OP and post what is essentially a pro-death comment. Shameful.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: It's not against forum rules to post an offensive view. The implications of this post are horrible, but it doesn't contain any personal attacks or anything else hide-worthy, so I'm voting to leave it.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Pretty insensitive to anyone who has lost a loved one to AiDS. 

[beam me up scottie]

14. Didn't think it would be that close.

Was not expecting to read that this morning.

Egad.

*walks away shaking head*

[Recursion]

6. Jesus ****ing Christ

If that was a joke, it was still in poor taste.

If that wasn't a joke, you are a horrible, horrible person.

[Recursion]

7. And survival is up 20 years since 2001

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/14/people-with-hiv-aids-live-nearly-20-years-longer-than-in-2001

We do seem to be making progress, thankfully.