Recession, broken promises posing health disaster: AIDS experts

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Canadian researcher blasts rich nations for their 'criminal' silence on failing to deliver medicine as politically charged conference begins

Geoffrey York
Cape Town, South Africa — From Monday's Globe and Mail

At one of their most politically charged conferences ever, AIDS scientists are warning of a looming health catastrophe because of the global recession and the "criminal" silence of world leaders on their faltering HIV-AIDS promises.

Thousands of people are dying unnecessarily of AIDS every day because of a growing gap between what science demands and what politicians deliver, Canadian scientist Julio Montaner told the conference
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