Opinion: PEPFAR, one of the greatest public health inventions of our time, is at risk
In the clinic where I work, I met a patient the other day whom I might not have 20 years ago.
He was from Uganda. Recently, he had moved to my small university town a few hours outside of Toronto. He was eager and bright. As we spoke, I was struck by how coolly he handled himself in the face of a great adversity. He told me that during an emergency medical procedure, in a rural village where he was doing fieldwork, he contracted HIV. Doctors gave him medicine — antiretrovirals that suppressed the virus for years. Sitting across from me, he said that he hoped we could extend his supply.
