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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Some states, notably South Africa under President Thabo Mbeki, were slow to acknowledge the severity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which significantly delayed the implementation of effective antiretroviral treatment programs.

A Surprising Challenge to the Spread of Access to Antiretroviral