The international global health community is greeting this news with understandable excitement, but also some trepidation about the new kinds of challenges this breakthrough could present for countries on the front line of AIDS crisis.
Here is a fascinating -- and wonky -- video from UNICEF. It relates something I didn't know: the largest number of new HIV infections is happening through spousal transmission.
We need to diversify how we fund the global fight against diseases like Malaria. The term of art for this is "innovative financing for development." The UN has a laboratory for this named Unitaid, and they deserve to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
This is not your everyday benefit concert. Tickets are not even being sold. They have to be earned. How a concert on the margins of the UN can help turn the tide against extreme global poverty.
In what will probably be the lasting take-aways of the 2012 conference was a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommending that patients diagnosed with HIVstart taking anti-retroviral druges immediately upon diagnosis.
