1.3 by 5 is an article in the Economist about the World Health Organization's attempts to treat AIDS. They did not reach their service goal by the end of 2005 but have made significant progress.
One of the main problems turned out to be that in most countries the infrastructure to achieve a large-scale roll-out of anti-HIV drugs did not exist. Indeed, it is noticeable that much of the initial benefit has been captured by places that already had good health infrastructures.
In this context, though, the initiative may have been more successful than the headline figure suggests, since part of the money has gone on infrastructure. That means building clinics and testing laboratories, but also training doctors (surprisingly many of whom, more than two decades after AIDS was identified, have still not been taught how to deal with it) and reorganising hospital administrations. This sort of work has spin-offs beyond the treatment of AIDS.
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