Helene Gayle, MD, MPH, President and CEO, CARE USA,
shares her thoughts from the ground at the XVII International
AIDS Conference in Mexico City.
The International AIDS conferences have been a
running timeline for the response to the epidemic and a marker for evolution in
my own career, and this week's International AIDS Conference is one of the
biggest – almost 25,000 delegates. I remember the first International AIDS
Conference, in 1985 in Atlanta,
as a gathering of a few hundred people, mostly scientists, just coming to grips
with a new and baffling disease.
