Tuesday, July 10, 2012

The Coffin-Maker as an HIV Benchmark

Source: NY Times
For those of you interested in the HIV epidemic, here is a good read in the Sunday New York Times. Improvements in HIV care and expanded access to retrovirals, particularly in resource poor settings, are having an adverse effect on the business of coffin-makers. This is a good thing.


Thanks to programs such as Pepfar, deaths from HIV/AIDS are decreasing significantly in Africa.


This is US Foreign aid put to excellent use.