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When the world faced the devastating viral scourge of HIV more than two decades ago, science saved the day. Or so it seemed to some.
Cases of disease associated with HIV infection started popping up in the US by the early 1980s, and by the late 1990s HIV/AIDS had claimed more than 400,000 lives in the country. Then, with the dawn of a new millennium approaching, drug makers won a flurry of approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that would transform the fight against HIV/AIDS. As ARVs became widely available as part of drug cocktails, the overall death rate from HIV/AIDS plummeted. In the US and elsewhere, the pharmaceutical breakthrough transformed the disease from a death sentence into a manageable infection. But that was only half the story. ....

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African countries are still being left behind in the global race for vaccines, despite a surge in coronavirus cases

Africa is being left behind in the Covid vaccine race, despite a surge in coronavirus cases
CNN
2/5/2021
By Eoin McSweeney and Nyasha Chingono, CNN
© SIPHIWE SIBEKO/POOL/AFP/Getty Images
One of the first South African Oxford vaccine trialists looks on as a medical worker injects him in Soweto on June 24
African nations are being left behind in obtaining Covid-19 vaccines as richer countries stockpile vaccines and prioritize their own populations despite a surge in cases and a new variant affecting the continent.
On Monday, South Africa took delivery of its first million doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, with another 500,000 expected later this month. It will begin inoculating health workers in February, the health ministry told CNN, becoming one of the first countries in Africa to receive large doses of the Covid-19 vaccines. ....

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