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INFECTIOUS DISEASE Progress toward ending AIDS has stalled The world’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic is faltering badly in the face of declines in spending and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an annual update from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released last week. In a campaign announced in 2015 to “end AIDS as a public health threat” by 2030, UNAIDS set targets for 2025 that the new report finds are far from being met. Last year, 1.5 million people became infected with HIV, 1 million more than the 2025 target. Of the 38.4 million people living with the virus in 2021, 10 million are still not receiving lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, and last year saw the lowest number of new people starting treatment in a decade. Alarmingly, UNAIDS notes, 52% of infected children aren’t being treated. It is embarrassing for the F.D.A. … to have its employees go to a company that is a leading manufacturer of death. Micah Berman a public health law expert at Ohio State University, commenting in The New York Times after the chief of the office of science in the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products moved to a job with tobacco giant Philip Morris International. HEART DISEASE Boost for heart gene cures The British Heart Foundation will award £30 million ($36 million) over 5 years to an international ...
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