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Conference Overview (XI Int Conf on AIDS)

AIDS Now A Manageable Disease - For Those Who Can Afford It

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 8th, 1996

The good news: HIV is on the run. The bad news: the AIDS pandemic is growing rapidly.

The highlight of the XI International Conference on AIDS, to be held July 7-12, 1996, in Vancouver, Canada, will be the presentation of clinical trial results showing that the most potent of the new HIV protease inhibitors - when combined with zidovudine (AZT) and lamivudine (3TC) - can control HIV infection.

Tantalizing data from small but growing numbers of subjects suggest that as long as people with HIV infection can continue taking the three-drug combination, they can remain free of AIDS symptoms.

But for the 80 percent of people with HIV...

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