Clinton presses for ‘AIDS-free generation’

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has set a new course for the US global HIV/AIDS programme, identifying the goal of creating an “AIDS-free generation” as a national priority.

During an 8 November speech on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland, Clinton said an AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no children were born with the virus, that teenagers and adults were at a far lower risk of becoming infected, and that those who became infected had access to treatment that helped prevent them from developing AIDS and passing on the virus.