As the AIDS conference closes in Mexico City today, we’re looking forward to the next one in Vienna in 2010 – and the shifts in the AIDS world that will hapen in the two years leading up to it. Read more
Prevention is a huge theme of this AIDS conference, as it was in Toronto. Today, scientists addressed one of the uncertainties that might sandbag a promising prevention strategy. Read more
Assumptions can be dangerous, particularly when it comes to disease. And so it’s important to note that at the AIDS 2008 conference experts have challenged numerous preconceptions about HIV transmission. Read more
In recent weeks we’ve heard announcements about increases in funding towards the treatment HIV/AIDS. At the G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan last month, world leaders set the target of spending $60 billion over the next five years towards tackling a handful of diseases, including HIV/AIDS. And just last week US President George W. Bush reauthorized an augmented version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which will is slated to supply $48 billion through 2013 to help fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa. Read more
Posted on behalf of Roxanne Khamsi, News editor of Nature Medicine Heavy rain and traffic could not keep thousands of people from attending the opening session of the AIDS 2008 meeting here in Mexico City last night. There, in the massive auditorium, we heard rallying cries against HIV/AIDS from global leaders, including Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general; Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO); and Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, president of Mexico. The speakers remained on message, echoing the theme of this year’s conference: a call for broader and more comprehensive treatments and prevention measures under the headline … Read more
Is the UN Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) retreating from a global commitment to provide HIV prevention, treatment and care to everyone who needs it by 2010? Read more
The United States gives more to global AIDS prevention programmes than any other country. But its flagship programme is controversial; some say it pushes abstinence too heavily. Erika Check sat down with Mark Dybul, US Global AIDS Coordinator, at the international AIDS meeting in Toronto this week, to discuss US strategy. Read more
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