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AIDS has extorted a huge toll in terms of lives lost, since the beginning of the epidemic. In the first 20 years over 20 million persons have succumbed to this infection, most of them in the developing world, impacting those countries in manners unimaginable – both in terms of human tragedy which can never be adequately quantified and economically. |