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Reversing the spread of dreaded HIV possible

A nurse tests an infant for HIV. [File, Standard]

The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) epidemic is now in its fourth decade after the initial description of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), in 1983. At the beginning of the epidemic, HIV was invariably fatal. With the availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), it has now become a chronic treatable condition in children, as well as in adults.

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