Aids - an ongoing emergency in which lives will continue to cost money
There was a bit of a party atmosphere in London last night, 9 Match 2010, as HIV/Aids experts and campaigners arrived for today's "emergency meeting" - why did the department for international development call it that? - to look at progress towards universal access to HIV/Aids treatment and prevention.
Along with Robin Gorna, who guest-blogged yesterday on her views, was Ambassador Eric Goosby, the head of the US global Aids initiative, Vuyiseka Dubula, head of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa, Michel Kazatchkine who leads the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria and a host of other luminaries, many of them from Africa.
