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The silent tsunami; The AIDS epidemic; Few victories to cheer, but ever more victims to mourn, on World AIDS Day.

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| November 30, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

As the world marks AIDS Day, there are few victories to cheer, but ever more victims to mourn. Ambitious targets for spreading treatment have been missed by a mile

THE death toll of this disaster is now ten times larger than that of last year's Indian Ocean tsunami. Some 3m people have died of AIDS-related diseases in the past year alone, a sixth of them children. These miserable statistics make a mockery of much-touted promises to be treating many more people for AIDS by now. Where the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS hoped to see 3m people taking anti-retroviral drugs by the end of 2005--the widely trumpeted "3x5" initiative launched in 2003--barely a third of that number are now doing so. As a result, the silent tsunami is killing faster with each…

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