Two Futures-Millions of Lives 2030 will be a year of reckoning for the AIDS epidemic, marking fifty years of one of the worst epidemics in the history of the world. The 28th International AIDS Conference will be, held in July of that year in Durban, South Africa. The conference will include a panel of leaders looking back on the fifty-year history of HIV and AIDS. But, what will the panelists say? If HIV and AIDS have made a strong resurgence in the 2020s, the panel will be, called How We Lost the War Against AIDS, and the panelists will focus on the mistakes that led to an overwhelming human catastrophe. But, in a different future, a future in which HIV and AIDS are no longer threats to public health, the panel will be called How We Won the War Against AIDS, and the panelists will celebrate the wise decisions that led to a humanitarian triumph. Which future will we see? Now is the time to choose.
