MAURA ELARIPE was diagnosed with HIV in 1997, aged 21. In 2002, she started standard triple therapy, which saved her life. But two weeks ago, Elaripe discovered that she is no longer responding to treatment.Elaripe lives in Papua New Guinea, but the problem of drug-resistant HIV is not confined to developing countries. In the US alone, an estimated 25,000 to 40,000 patients are now resistant to many HIV drugs.
