HIV/AIDS Treatment for Kids

Before a few minutes ago, I’d never thought about the fact that HIV/AIDS treatment drugs which are available all over the world (though still at prohibitively high costs for people in many countries or regions), are made for adults and not children. Once you think about it it makes sense - I mean the bottle of tylenol or advil or whatever that’s probably sitting in all of our medicine cabinets at home is only for adults and children over the age of 12 (or over a certain weight), and you have to get the one specifically labelled for children (or at the very least, cut the adult does in half) to avoid overdosing a child. So of course the same would apply for drugs to treat HIV/AIDs. Also, most kids aren’t able to swallow pills very easily, and so ususally need something that can be dissolved in water for them, or that they can chew.
Apperently Past US President Bill Clinton is working with several companies and organizations to make a child-appropriate drug for treatment of HIV/AIDS available to children in developing countries, at a fairly reasonable price - approximately 16 cents a day - which is great!
As I said, I hadn’t really thought about this issue until I read the article stating what was being done about it - which I think is a fairly nice way to find out about a problem.. to hear about it’s solution. However, it does make me wonder how make issues and problems are out there that are serious (as in making people suffer and die every day), that very few people know about, and so cannot organize and try to find solutions to them. It is depressing to hear about all these issues and problems…. but knowledge is power, and so once you know about something, you can start to take steps to help solve it.
So… hurrah for people like Bill Clinton and the organizations and companies he is working with who are making this breakthrough possible, and improving the lives of so many children; but I’d also like to remind everyone (including myself!) to keep your eyes and ears and hearts open, so that you can know about problems, and become part of the solution!
~Chris