Over the past ten years, half of Africans infected with HIV were given the medicines they need. Millions of lives were saved. But the progress has a downside. The virus may mutate and become resistant, warn scientists.
"The fact that half of the Africans who are HIV-positive and are in need of medicines now have access to them is one of the greatest breakthroughs in medical history," exclaims Tobias Rinke de Wit, a professor at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam. "But this development comes with a downside. If you start combating a virus, it tends to mutate and find a way of becoming resistant to the drugs that are used."
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