AIDS-plagued Zimbabwe hails HIV ‘cure’
Medical breakthrough offers hope to African nation, which has more than a million AIDS cases.
4 Mar 2013
A breakthrough in treating the HIV infection is offering new hope in developing countries plagued by AIDS.
US doctors have apparently cured a baby girl who was born with the virus.
In Zimbabwe, where more than a million people are living with HIV, the news was greeted with cautious optimism.
Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports from Harare.
Source : Al Jazeera
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