When AIDS researchers lost their prenatal clinic space at Kampala, Uganda's Makerere University, they moved across the street and quickly built this shack and pitched a tent as a waiting room. This modest setup then served as headquarters for one of the most dramatic AIDS research advances yet discovered: that a $4 treatment with the anti-HIV drug nevirapine can significantly reduce the risk of an infected mother transmitting HIV to her baby.

(Photograph by Malcolm Linton)

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