[UPDATE] Vienna Report Back: Key Topics 来自维也纳的报告：关键话题

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By Ken Oh and Meg Davis

作者：Ken Oh、王翠凤

 

 

There were dozens of sessions and over
20,000 people at the 2010 International AIDS Conference, whose theme was
“Rights Here, Rights Now”. We can’t bring it all to you, but here’s a roundup
of the highlights:

2010年的国际艾滋病大会，共有20,000人参加，召开了多场会议。本次会议的主题是 “我们的权利，就在此时此地”。在此，我们不能将会议的全部呈现给各位，但将为各位呈上本次会议亮点的综述。

 

  • Science Update:
    Breakthroughs in microbicides, growing momentum for Pre-Exposure
    Prophylaxis, and the UNITAID patent pool
  • 科学：杀微生物剂研制的突破；治疗性预防（Pre-Exposure Propylaxi）的持续进展以及联合救助中心专利池（UNITAID patent pool）的建立

 

 

[NEWS] Microbicide Gel: A Major Breakthrough in AIDS Fight /科学报告

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Microbicide gel: A major breakthrough in AIDS fight

In one of the most attention-grabbing
sessions of the conference, the Center for the AIDS Program of Research in
South Africa reported that a clinical study of 889 women has found that a microbicide
gel used before and after sex could reduce risk of HIV infection by nearly 40
percent.  The findings are especially encouraging
as six previous microbicide trials have failed over the past fourteen years.
The self-applied gel could make it possible for women to reduce the risk of HIV
infection.

 

 

杀微生物凝胶：艾滋病战役中的主要突破

在其中一场引人注目的会议中，南非艾滋病研究项目中心报告道，通过对889名妇女进行临床研究，他们发现妇女在性活动前后使用一种杀微生物凝胶后，其感染艾滋病病毒的风险将降低40%。在经历过去14年来，
6次杀微生物剂研制的失败之后，这次的发现令人精神为之一振，这种可自主使用的凝胶使得降低妇女感染艾滋病的风险成为可能。

 

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[COMMENTARY] Bill Easterly’s Burden

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By Gregg Gonsalves
Yale University and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition

Comments at
The Future of Development:
Human Rights and International Aid Beyond the Economic Crisis
Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium
April 8-9, 2010
Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

* * *
Good afternoon. Greetings from up on Science Hill, where I just got out of a
class on evolutionary biology. Permit me to use one analogy today–only because it seems so apt.  A new book by a fairly well-known philosopher named Jerry Fodor has just come out. It’s called What
Darwin Got Wrong. This isn’t some creationist tract. Dr. Fodor apparently believes in evolution, but he thinks Darwin erred by claiming natural selection is responsible for it.  The book hasn’t been well-received among scientists–not because we have a vested interest in this 150-year-old theory, but because the evidence supports natural selection and Dr. Fodor’s description of it only remotely resembles the phenomenon.

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