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What's Next for AIDS?
from Scientific American
The surprise success this summer of a clinical trial on an antiretroviral-based vaginal microbicide provides new traction for efforts to combat AIDS in the developing world. In a special report, Scientific American looks at some new directions to expect for treatment and prevention of this widespread killer.
Drug policy has focused on a policing approach of prohibition and incarceration, which has contributed to spreading HIV within the injection-drug community. Comprehensive drug reform policies are showing better results.
Meanwhile, a paucity of research on men who have sex with other men has done a disservice to efforts to prevent the spread of HIV. And despite questions, the seemingly unsuccessful phase III Thailand trial this past fall spread optimism for an AIDS vaccine.
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