Since it first began in 1981, the HIV epidemic has killed more than 44 million people. For a generation, a diagnosis was essentially a death sentence, and for much of the world it remains a daily threat, with some 1.3 million people newly infected in 2024 alone.
But something remarkable has happened. Deaths from HIV-caused AIDS have fallen 70 percent since their peak. Around 30 million people are on antiretroviral treatment, drugs that turned that death sentence into a manageable condition. And we’re now on the cusp of breakthroughs that would have seemed like fantasy a decade ago: l...
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