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Opinion: Don’t let HIV ravage a generation poised to transform Africa

We must find new and better ways to dramatically accelerate progress on #HIV #AIDS and quickly turn ideas into solutions.
A medic tests a truck driver for HIV inside a Doctors Without Borders van along along the Beira "corridor," a strip of land running from the Indian Ocean port of Beira in Mozambique to Zimbabwe's eastern border.

I started my medical training in San Francisco in 1982. Like many of my colleagues at that time, I found myself at the center of a terrifying public health crisis, in which a then-unknown virus was killing young men at an alarming rate. Although I was preparing to be an internist and oncologist, I also became an AIDS doctor. That work eventually took me to Uganda to help care for people with HIV/AIDS as the epidemic took hold

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