> The West has the luxury of expensive drugs to treat it, but much of the developing world doesn't have that, and they are still dying like flies

That's not really true, as the article points out. PEPFAR has really done amazing work lowering the HIV mortality rate in developing countries. And a reminder of who may keep this program from being reauthorized: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/29/pepfar-aids...