World Health Organization Says ‘We have Come to Terms’ with HIV, Missing the Glaringly Obvious
A World Health Organization (WHO) official said society has “come to terms” with HIV, but he missed a glaringly obvious point. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, said at a conference Wednesday (May 13) that COVID-19 may “never go away” and referred to the HIV epidemic, which took hold in the 1980s. “[COVID 19] may become just another endemic virus in our communities and this virus may never go away,” Ryan said. “HIV has not gone away but we’ve come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we have found the prevention methods, and people don’t […]