For the past two decades, AIDS experts — clinicians, epidemiologists,policymakers, activists, and scientists — have gatheredevery two years to confer about what is now the world's leadinginfectious cause of death among young adults. This year, theInternational AIDS Society is hosting the meeting in Torontofrom August 13 through 18. The last time the conference washeld in Canada, in 1996, its theme was "One World, One Hope."But it was evident to conferees from the poorer reaches of theworld that the price tag of the era's great hope — combinationantiretroviral therapy — rendered it . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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