The High Cost of Fighting HIV

December 10, 2015

Anti-retroviral drugs to fight AIDS. Governments and donors need to focus as much on prevention as treatment, says Collier (photo: Krista Kennell/ZUMA/Corbis)
- The High Cost of Fighting HIV
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Many more people with HIV are now surviving for longer, thanks to new antiretroviral drug treatments. But their governments must now come up with a way to pay for their ongoing treatment. But the price is putting many countries in sub-Saharan Africa at risk of unsustainable levels of debt.  Read more: From Death Sentence to Debt Sentence
Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
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