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Adrian Ogier gives a round up of treatments news from the Vienna Conference. read more »

Finding a cure for HIV must be prioritised, said Sharon Lewin of Melbourne’s Monash University, in a keynote address at the opening session of the AIDS 2010 conference. read more »

Significant advances in HIV prevention were unveiled at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, with research advancing on several fronts towards new prevention technologies. Paul Kidd reports. read more »

Reporting back from the AIDS Conference in Vienna, DAVID MENADUE discovers that ‘HIV and ageing’ is a universal issue, that long-term complications may be more prevalent than we thought and that good nutrition really is a good idea. read more »

In what is being called a major breakthrough, a trial of a vaginal microbicide gel in South African women has shown for the first time that such a product can be effective against HIV infection. read more »

The role of science and scientific evidence in HIV criminalisation was highlighted in a pre-conference session at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria on 18 July. read more »

True to the main argument in Alvin Toffler’s book, Future Shock, change is not slowing, it's accelerating. Neil McKellar-Stewart recalls how things have changed and prepares us for more to come. read more »

According to surveys past, the number one thing people get out of attending international AIDS conferences is not, as you might expect, ‘finding out about new treatment developments’, but rather ‘a sense of spiritual renewal in the fight against HIV’. read more »

The President of the Swiss Federal AIDS Commission, which produced the controversial statement on the effect of treatment of HIV transmission earlier this year, made some qualifications to the statement on a panel of experts at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. read more »

The criminalisation of HIV transmission or exposure was one of the burning issues at the World AIDS Conference and at a prior satellite meeting. South African Supreme Court Justice Edwin Cameron delivered a speech that called for an unambiguous rejection of the use of criminal law to regulate the sexual behaviour of those with or at risk of HIV. read more »