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(more than 30 million are HIV positive)

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(what makes treatment so expensive?)

Pharmaceutical industry expendituresWorldwide, 1996-2005

12% R&D

25% Profits

30% Operational and material costs

32% Marketing and administration

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You bring kindness, and your

kindness is good. But it will not

cure this AIDS.

I know there is medicine in

your country for people like

you. But why not here, for

people like me?

It is acceptable to die of a treatable infection

so long as you are poor enough.

PIH/David WaltonPIH/David WaltonPIH/David WaltonPIH/David Walton

Before ARV therapy After six months on ARV therapyPIH/David WaltonPIH/David WaltonPIH/David WaltonPIH/David Walton

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$15,000

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(treatable diseases kill 10 million every year)

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celebrate the newcampus drug

culture

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(what can I do?)

This could be you

this could be you?

? ?

(hug a professor)

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Universities should:

1.Promote equal accessto university research

2.Promote R&D for neglected diseases

3.Measure success by impact on human welfare

ARV coverage, 2002-2007

WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF, Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, Progress Report, June 2008

ARV coverage, 2002-2007

WHO/UNAIDS/UNICEF, Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector, Progress Report, June 2008

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