After thinking of the WORLD AIDS DAY, I keep in my mind some figures disseminated by Doctors without Borders. They are based on a report made by World Health Organization:
2.100.000 children under the age of 15 need antiretroviral treatments. 430.000 children are born infected with the virus.
33 million people are living with HIV/ AIDS worlwide. The majority of them in Sub-Shararan Africa.
The worse: The access to antiretroviral therapies is very difficult here. The pharmaceutical industry seems not to help in this respect. Is is fair? Let´s go to remind our goverments: "health is a right for eveybody". All people, without exception, have to have the possibility to be cured if necessary.
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