Global: World AIDS day, the free trade way

In the bubble of the American media universe, we are protected from many news stories the whole rest of the world knows about. If we paid close attention on World AIDS Day we do know for instance, that 40 million people now carry the HIV virus worldwide. 25 million are dead from it, with 3 million more deaths each year, and 5 million new infections occurred in 2005 alone. But one thing we might not know is that something less than half the planet's HIV-AIDS cases receive any treatment at all.