Uganda: One Gap Seems to Get Wider

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#AIDS2016 has been a marvelous experience for me - being around very passionate fellow activists, advocates, researchers, innovative scientists, donors and decision makers for five days is a very rare opportunity. I have also been mesmerized by infrastructure and beautiful coastlines around Durban. At the same time, I have been utterly perturbed by beggars' and homeless poor people sleeping on the streets of Durban.

For five days in Durban, we shared ideas, strategies, tactics and tools to use for ending HIV/AIDS epidemic and bridging the treatment gap of 20 million people currently in need of treatment globally. Scientists are working day and night for to come up with an HIV vaccine and a cure, and I learned at the conference that big strides have been made. However, one gap seems to getting wider and wider - POVERTY!! I am talking of the gap between the poor and the rich.

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