AIDS Response at a Crossroads

摘要

Later this month, the xviii international aids conference will be held in vienna, austria. Now the largest conference dedicated to a single disease, it will bring together more than 20,000 attendees. Over the past several years, however, attendance by the basic science and clinical research communities at this conference has waned. This raises the question of whether their absence threatens the success of the overall response to AIDS.rnThe evolution of this conference frames a history of the AIDS epidemic and suggests reasons for the decreased interest of these scientists.