Despite Focus on Coronavirus, AIDS Still Looms

HIV epidemic outpacing the AIDS response in Asia Pacific?

By: Bobby Ramakant

With the world’s attention on the damage being wrought on the global health system by the Covid-19 coronavirus, which at this writing now has affected 250,000 people and killed more than 10,000, there are troubling signs that a far worse scourge – HIV – is outpacing the AIDS response, at least in the Asia Pacific. 

Since the beginning o…