Health Leader Still Hopes For Eventual Aids Cure

August 5, 2008 7:06 pm | Diseases | No comments

This week, more than 25,000 people from the global HIV/AIDS community are in Mexico City, Mexico, attending the XVII International AIDS Conference. I am pleased to be among them. This is the first International AIDS Conference to be held in Latin America, a region hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but also a place where exceptional [...]

AIDS Vaccine Trial Cancelled

July 21, 2008 3:58 pm | Medical News | No comments

The US government has decided not to go ahead with a proposed AIDS vaccine trial called “PAVE 100.” The decision comes a few weeks before the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City – and after a controversy earlier this year about the safety of another AIDS vaccine trial. To find out what it means [...]