A Surprising Challenge to the Spread of Access to Antiretroviral

question 4

Multiple Choice

A surprising challenge to the spread of access to antiretroviral drugs in the 1990s was that ______.

• A) pharmaceutical companies did not make the drugs available for export
• B) some states refused to acknowledge the existence of an HIV and AIDS epidemic in their borders
• C) it was too dangerous for care providers to travel to disease epicenters
• D) strains of HIV mutated more quickly than antiretroviral treatments could be deployed

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