* Aids pandemic gains renewed strength — “The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the UN.” (Guardian Unlimited)
* Turning point for HIV infection rate in Africa — “Encouraging News On AIDS: Infections among young people in Africa may be starting to decline, according to trackers of the epidemic.” (SFGate/Chronicle)
I’ve just been writing all day and clicking back and forth to Google News, watching the 300+ articles on the depressing pandemic stats grow (based on the annual UNAIDS report, released ahead of World Aids Day on December 1), and now just saw the SFGate headline and was like, huh? Weird.
