Africa: Hope vs Hype in Cure Reporting - Getting Our Soundbites Right

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A journalist friend once said to me - in all earnestness: "What will you people who work in HIV do if a cure is found for HIV tomorrow? All the programs you're working on will have to close down".

There were so many things wrong with that statement, I didn't know where to start.

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