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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Clues to a possible cure for AIDS Doctors, scientists and activists meet to discuss how to pummel HIV. The Economist AIDS 26 July, 2024 | 795 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ On July 22nd the week-long 25th International aids Conference kicked off in Munich. Though these gatherings are no longer the war councils they were in the epidemic’s early days - for the strategy to defeat HIV is now pretty much settled - there remains much fighting to be done. In a report released as the conference started, UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that deals with the disease, said that almost 40m people are now infected. There were 1.3m new infections in 2023, and 630,000 HIV-related deaths. But those numbers are down from 2.1m and 1.3m respectively in 2010. That year is the baseline for calculating the drop of 90% in annual new infections and HIV-related deaths, which experts reckon would end aids as a public-health threat. The hope is to reac
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