Abstract
Humanity and AIDS are in it together for the long haul. This is, perhaps, the clearest message to emerge from the 8th International Conference on AIDS, held late last month in Amsterdam. There will be no quick fixes. No magic bullet will emerge from a laboratory to banish the scourge of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Compared with several of its predecessors, the Amsterdam AIDS conference was a subdued affair. A number of the prominent AIDS researchers who usually give intense, almost passionate talks—Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and William A. Haseltine of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, to offer two examples— gave much more measured presentations this year. Unlike past conferences, where, say, research on an AIDS vaccine seemed poised for a leap forward, no one area of research took on special prominence in Amsterdam. In fact, the research that received the most attention during the weeklong meeting concerned 30 or so patients ...
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