Diminishing Returns

'For every one person that you put in therapy, six new people get infected. So we're losing that game, the numbers game.''Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at the Fourth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment, and Prevention Fauci went on to tell the gathering of HIV experts that 'we've had one important breakthrough this year with understanding the role of circumcision in prevention,' but 'we need to do more of that and, more importantly, we need to make available to the people throughout the world the prevention methods that are proven technologies.' Experts estimate that in many parts of the developing world, effective prevention strategies like condoms and sterile syringes are available to less than 15% of the population.