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...nominate Dr. Tony Faucci for his significant contributions to understanding and treating HIV/AIDS. He delineated the nature of the immune defect in HIV infection, and his other demonstrations have identified the major obstacles to HIV's eradication...
...Pontifical Council for the Family, Colombian-born Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo was a staunch advocate of the Roman Catholic Church's conservative policies, opposing abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage and contraception--at one point calling into question the efficacy of condoms in preventing the spread of HIV. Considered a possible candidate for Pope before Benedict XVI succeeded John Paul II in 2005, López Trujillo was deeply wary of leftist liberation theology and its influence on Latin American Catholicism. "I don't believe that in Latin America, Marxism has any possibilities," he said in the 1970s. "Nor does...
...link of disease and poverty is proven,” said Agnes Binagwaho, another panelist and the executive secretary of Rwanda’s National AIDS Control Commission. To strengthen her claims, she presented maps that portrayed the size of continents based on malaria and HIV prevalence and deaths, along with income. Jim Y. Kim—a professor of medicine who worked with Partners in Health at its founding—moderated the event. Despite the gravity of the topics discussed, the mood was lightened by the wry and witty humor of the panelists—particularly Farmer...
Walker and his colleagues founded the International HIV Controllers Study in 2006 with a $2.5 million grant from Mark Schwartz ’76 and Lisa Schwartz, which currently involves more than a dozen countries...
...reality is that there are [HIV-infected] people walking around right now that have figured out someway to survive without need for medication,” Walker said. “There are answers that could be gleaned from these people that could have incredibly important implications...