AIDS Conference 2008 - World Bank

The 24,000 delegates to the International AIDS Conference in Mexico, which begins on Sunday August 3, are looking for ways to effectively use the US 10 billion a year in global AIDS commitments, to combat the epidemic. There have been successes - in the African country of Botswana, for example, mother to baby transmission of HIV has greatly decreased -- but many problems still lie ahead, and delegates will be stressing the need for further local as well as global- level commitment to fighting HIV AIDS:

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[YuLong9]

Further, those results were based off of having a 2 allel match ... compared to a 5 in the US ... the in-ablity to rethink HIV/AIDS will be the end of the scientific revolution. It's sad to see the lack of trust things like this problem generate ... not following the proper protocols and buying into dogma is going to break down something we researchers spent our lives building ... science is the art of asking questions ... not burning witches.

[YuLong9]

Why don't we take that billion and come up with an accurate test and consistant guide lines for diagnosing the disease? Why don't we translate all the available standards and decide exactly which virus HIV is? How can money be "well spent" when you can be positive in Africa and negative in the US, or Canada, or Australia, etc ... Why not do some real stats on the disease and stop pulling numbers out of a hat? The south african media stats are WAY off ... 1000 a day in 2004? More like 17 ...