(RED)’s CEO, Deborah Dugan, in Huffington Post: ‘The Beginning of the End of AIDS?’

In today's Huffington Post, (RED)'s CEO sheds light on the progress made in the fight against AIDS, the work (RED) and the global health community are striving towards and asks: could this be the beginning of the end of AIDS?

Is this the beginning of the end of AIDS? 
"Last week I spoke at the UN's event on maternal and child health: "Every Woman, Every Child". What struck me is how little the world knows about the progress made in the fight against AIDS since it started for real in the developing world less than 10 years ago. The work of the Global Fund, established in 2002, and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), established in 2003, has saved the lives of over six million people with HIV. They're alive because they now have access to life-saving anti-retroviral medication -- an impossibility before 2002, when the cost of medication was driven down from between $10,000-$20,000 per year to $350 a year. That cost is now around $150 per year in the developing world -- it costs just 40 cents a day for the medication needed to help someone with HIV stay alive."
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