Global AIDS: Myths & Facts

Today, 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS-the vast majority of them in the developing world. Yet even as life-prolonging treatment with antiretrovirals has become the standard of care in the United States and other affluent countries, those afflicted in low-income countries are fighting the disease without access to minimal care OR drugs. In fact, according to the UN, only 300,000 people in poor countries are receiving antiretrovirals. Global AIDS: Myths and Facts shatters 10 myths ab…