WHO Urges Antiretroviral Treatment for All With HIV

The World Health Organization is marking World AIDS Day on Tuesday by emphasizing the need to expand antiretroviral therapy to all those living with HIV. The U.N. health agency says about 16 million of the 37 million people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are currently taking the combination of drugs and that universal use is the way to end the AIDS epidemic within a generation. It cited studies that show people who start the treatment shortly after acquiring the virus are...

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