Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
Doctors, scientists and activists meet to discuss how to pummel HIV
On July 22nd the week-long 25th International AIDS Conference kicked off in Munich. Though these gatherings are no longer the war councils they were in the epidemic’s early days—for the strategy to defeat HIV is now pretty much settled—there remains much fighting to be done.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “The war on AIDS”
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