They say there is a war on and its target is the deadly human immunodeficiency virus. This war runs worldwide but its main battleground is sub-Saharan Africa, where seven out of 10 HIV positive persons in the world live – 24.7 million in 2013. The region suffered up to 1.3 million AIDS-related deaths in the same year, according to the United Nations. Yet the budgets of many African countries reflect greater interest in arms deals than in managing the deadly HIV epidemic.