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JAMA contributor Dennis Blakesley, PhD

JAMA. 1998;280:1811-1814.

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"BE A FORCE for change," the theme of this year's World AIDS Day on December 1, might also be the motto of Mark A. Wainberg, PhD, president of the International AIDS Society (IAS).

Mark A. Wainberg, PhD (Photo credit: McGill University)

At the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva this summer, Wainberg, a retrovirologist at McGill University in Montreal, began a 2-year term as head of the society. As director of the AIDS Centre at McGill, Wainberg has helped develop and has witnessed firsthand the remarkable success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the treatment of HIV disease.

However, from a global perspective, he and others stress that prevention, not treatment, is the only way to reduce the crushing impact of HIV disease and AIDS in the developing world. In this interview, Wainberg discusses the prevention of the spread of HIV in the developing . . . [Full Text of this Article]