Ethics

AIDS' Challenge to Society

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 29th, 1998

In one of a series of essays marking the 150th anniversary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes Science, the executive director of UNAIDS, Peter Piot, said that the global research and development agenda for HIV, with its emphasis on the situation in developed countries, "needs to be turned on its head."

"Ignoring the needs of 90 percent of the individuals affected by the epidemic is not just unethical. It is plainly irrational...," he wrote.

Scientific progress as it relates to HIV and AIDS has been astonishing, said Piot, but it "has been hardly of any benefit to the millions of men, women, and...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1998-06-29)

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