Lessons in the Fight Against AIDS.

MEXICO CITY, NEW YORK - Inad never planned on being an AIDS advocate. While effective treatment for HIV was available globally in the form of antiretroviral therapy (ART), Inad, who asked to use only his first name to protect his privacy, didn't know where to go in Mindanao to get it. "On the one hand it's quite remarkable how far the (global HIV) response has come, so that's the good story", says Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation. [Extracted from the article]

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