Experts Call for Rethinking AIDS Money
January 18, 2008 By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer
An Angolan child washes in a ditch near a water pump in Luanda, Angola, in this photo taken Friday, Feb. 9, 2007. In the two decades since AIDS began sweeping the globe, it has often been labeled as the biggest threat to international health. But with revised numbers downsizing the pandemic published last year along with an admission that AIDS peaked in the late 1990s, some AIDS experts are now wondering if it might be wise to shift some of the billions of dollars of AIDS money to basic health problems like clean water, family planning or diarrhea. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
(AP) -- In the two decades since AIDS began sweeping the globe, it has often been labeled as the biggest threat to international health.
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