AIDS Spreading Faster Than Treatment

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Access to drugs to fight H.I.V. and AIDS in developing countries has improved recently, but new infections still vastly outpace treatment efforts, health officials said Monday. Three years ago, fewer than 300,000 people in the developing world were receiving antiretroviral drugs; last year, 2.2 million people did, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at an AIDS conference in Sydney. “However, for every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected,” he said.