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Improving Response to HIV Goes Hand-in-Hand With Improving Overall Health Systems, Experts Say

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July 20, 2009

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The battle against HIV is not in competition with battles against other major diseases in the developing world, prominent researchers and experts asserted at IAS 2009. Quite the opposite: The lessons learned during the global response to HIV have led to improvements and innovations in health systems that can yield huge benefits in fighting many of the world's worst pandemics, argue Jacqueline Bataringaya, M.D., Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., Michel Kazatchkine, M.D., and Alan Whiteside, Ph.D.

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This article was provided by TheBodyPRO.com. It is a part of the publication The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention.

IAS 2009 Newsroom

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