Two years ago the 12th World Aids Conference took place in Geneva. But today the gap between rich and poor, n relation to access to highly active antiretroviral therapy, yawns as wide as it did in 1998. Country CH Ivory Coast UG Z'bwe Pop.
All studies show that prevention is much more cost effective than treatment.
However, whatever we may think about priorities, the access issue will always push its way into the fore ground of political discussions. There are two main reasons for this. Consider that 2 million people have died of Aids in Uganda alone, more than 300 persons a day, every day, from 1985 to 2000. If they prioritize prevention to the exclusion of treatment they are in an impossible personal political and moral situation. For all these reasons, efforts to avoid or deflect the access issue are doomed.