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CIAO DATE: 03/02
From the Editors
This Electronic Journal goes to press at the same time that about 10,000 researchers, physicians, activists, care-givers, and government officials prepare to convene at the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa. The meeting is expected to showcase innovative techniques and strategies for care, treatment, and prevention which could offer new directions for those pursuing this vital work.
The weeks before the conference have brought a steady stream of developments in this ongoing story about HIV/AIDS: new statistics on the mounting toll of the disease; initiatives for education and prevention programs; new efforts to encourage the hunt for a vaccine. Perhaps most significant of all, however, is the evolving recognition that a disease, for the first time, presents such an ominous threat to health, prosperity and development that it deserves the same kind of official attention world leaders have given to more traditional threats to world security.
We remain hopeful that this increased attention from around the world will make major contributions as we seek to confront this scourge.