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Volume 356:1801-1805 May 3, 2007 Number 18 Next

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Last December in Wuhan, China, two middle-aged rural women who had become infected with HIV in the 1990s struggled to describe to foreign visitors how China's new HIV-treatment program had changed their lives. Suddenly, one woman's 12-year-old daughter spoke up. Her mother, she said, had been too sick to get out of bed, and the girl had left school to help at home and on the farm. But when the woman began taking antiretroviral drugs, she improved quickly, returned to work in the fields, and sent her daughter back to the classroom.

Such stories are increasingly common in China, reflecting . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Gill is a China scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. Dr. Okie is a contributing editor of the Journal.

An interview with Dr. Gill and a slide presentation are available at www.nejm.org.

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