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...existing shortfall that threatens its work. A recent paper by Harvard researchers Rochelle Walensky and Daniel Kuritzkes warned that failure to increase HIV/AIDS funding could have serious consequences for countries like South Africa, where only a linear (as opposed to exponential) expansion in the number of people treated with ART would result in 1.2 million avoidable deaths over the next five years...
...PEPfAR's early years will be repeated." One of the original PEPfAR goals was to attain universal access (defined as 80% of the population) to HIV treatment by 2010. While at least 10 million people worldwide currently receive some care, including more than 2.1 million who are on ART, a majority of HIV-infected individuals still lack access to treatment. "In rich countries, HIV/AIDS is now a chronic illness," Doctors Without Borders' MacLean says. "But in poor countries, it's still a fatal disease...
...art nouveau swags on the façade of Art Hotel Boston, which despite its name is not in Massachusetts but in Turin, give no hint of the modern-art bonanza within. Guests check in beneath a poetic fusion of paint, cement and metal by Torinese artist Marco Gastini. A triptych by Roy Lichtenstein and a watercolor by Lucio Fontana hang in the bar. But it's the plethora of paintings, photographs and sculptures by lesser-known Italian talents - Luigi Ontani, Carla Accardi, Nicola Bolla - that suggest this is a private passion made public...
...want my hotel to feel more like a private house than a museum," explains owner Roberto Franchi, adding that he first decided to display his artworks when he ran out of space at home. "This way, I can look at my art all day and other people can enjoy it too." Recently, his collection has been boosted by loans, including a canvas by Alberto Burri, from the Giov-Anna Piras Foundation of contemporary art in nearby Asti. (See TIME's Global Adviser for exotic, beautiful and interesting getaways...
Downstairs, the Linea Continua restaurant dazzles diners with its imaginative interpretations of Piedmontese cuisine. On Thursday evenings, aperitivi on the terrace are a magnet for players in Turin's buzzy contemporary-art scene. For more information, visit hotelbostontorino.it...