Science and technology | The war on AIDS

Clues to a possible cure for AIDS

Doctors, scientists and activists meet to discuss how to pummel HIV

 Candles around a red ribbon for World AIDS day.
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|Munich

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.

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