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AIDS treatment delays costing lives

    JOHANNESBURG

    Delegates at the recently ended 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok have called for a dramatic scale-up of access to anti-AIDS treatment in developing nations.

    Participants argued that the debate on the use of generic versus brand-name drugs should not be used as an excuse for further procrastination in providing much needed access to treatment for HIV-positive people.

    Dr. Joep Lange, president of the International AIDS Society, warned that further delays in access to treatment were being measured in lives.

    "While the task of scaling up access to treatment is formidable, it is within our reach if political leaders have the will to do so," Lange said in a statement.

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