"Scientific advances and their successful implementation have
brought the world to a tipping point in the fight against Aids,"
the 54-page document says. Speaking at a launch to mark World
Aids Day, Mrs Clinton stressed that challenges still exist as
the global community seeks to "change the course of this
pandemic and usher in an AIDS-free generation." But although HIV
may still be around into the future, "the disease that it causes
need not be," she said. Antiretroviral drugs have been hugely
successful in cutting the rate of HIV transmission from pregnant
women to their unborn babies or via breast-feeding, as well as
in helping HIV-positive patients from developing Aids. Some 1.7
million people still die every year from AIDS-related illnesses.
But in the vision of an Aids-free generation, almost no child is
born with HIV; as they grow up, they are at lower risk of
becoming infected; and if they do get HIV, they have access to
treatment to halt its progression towards Aids. New HIV
infections among children