UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima says 50,000 people contract HIV annually in Zambia, and this can be prevented. And Byanyima says she has great admiration for the path Zambia has taken as well as its leadership. Speaking during ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, Byanyima said Zambia needed to drastically reduce the number of HIV infections because the treatment was expensive and it was currently mostly funded by outsiders. She wondered what Zambia and other African countries would do if one day, America woke up and declared it no longer had resources to fund HIV/AIDS treatment. She said the infections for HIV can be stopped. “Absolutely, the infections for HIV can be stopped, there shouldn’t be any one person getting newly infected today...

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