Battle ready

摘要

This year's report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the state of humanity's health concentrates on the "3 by 5" anti-AIDS initiative that the agency, and several collaborators, announced last year. The initiative's aim is to provide anti-AIDS drugs to 3m people in poor countries by the end of 2005. That might not sound much, given that at least 34m people are now thought to be infected with HIV, the AIDS-causing virus, but it would, in fact, be a huge leap forward. At the moment, only 400,000 of these people are getting the drugs they need.