World marks 40th anniversary of HIV/AIDS pandemic

The World

Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the US reported the first cases of HIV/AIDS. It would turn the world upside down, killing at least 32 million people. In the late 90s, new antiretroviral treatments began to save millions of lives, including Edwin Cameron's. The World's Marco Werman spoke with the former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa about surviving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and what lessons from that experience can be applied to today.

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