Re-stoking AIDS response fire

By Steven Kraus, Lee Duk-houng and Cho Myung-hwan

From 8 to 10 June, world leaders will convene in New York City at the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS. The gathering of heads of state and other leaders from government, the scientific community, civil society and the private sector offers a unique opportunity to chart the future course of the global AIDS response.

The meeting comes at a pivotal moment in AIDS history: 30 years ago, in June 1981, U.S. scientists identified the