...increasing availability of funds to combat HIV/AIDS and wider access to antiretroviral drugs.

That is certainly not the case. HIV/AIDS remains a huge problem in Africa. The crisis persists, deepens and resists easy solutions. The disease is not only a serious obstacle to development efforts but is shifting the horizons of development. The epidemic has decimated an entire generation of young adults; born after independence, they represented the hopes, savings and investments of...

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