africa: Aids drugs scandal: toll soars

Only 30,000 people out of almost 30 million now living with the death sentence of HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa are being given the drugs that keep infected men and women alive, well and working in Britain, in spite of the promises of help from rich nations over the past two years. As a devastating report from UNaids on the scale of the epidemic and its human and economic cost was published this week, it became clear that a vast gulf still exists between those who will die in the absence of treatment and those whose lives can be indefinitely prolonged by modern medicine.