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Scientists attempt to unravel AIDS mysteries
DURBAN. South Africa. July 10: Sc ientists from around the world are comparing notes on AIDS, spurred by an emotive appeal from an I I-year-old boy who was infected at birth. In a desperate effort to unravel the complex disease, reports AFP
They are meeting in Durban, on South Africa's Indian Ocean coast, the 13th such meeting so far. and the first in a developing continent, to discuss solutions to a pandemic that has killed 18.8 million people worldwide, more than two-thlrds of them in black Africa.
"You can't get AIDS by klss-litg Bugging or holding hands. We .ire normal human beings We can walk, we can talk, we arc-all the same." said young Nkosi Johnson, facing an audience* of thousands at the opening cere-
mony of the International AIDS Conference in the city's cricket stadium on Sunday.
"When I have an i>|h ii wound, that's the only time people need to be* afraid of me, the boy said, to great applause, as he* told the tale of the death of his AIDS-infllcted mother, who was "in heaven, watching over me."
He called on South African President Thabo Mbeki, w’ho had Just opened the* conference, to provide the anti-retroviral drug AZT to pregnant women.
Mbeki has banned that, partly on the grounds of cost, but also because* he says he believes the drug may have harmful side-effects.
In South Africa, one in five adults is infected with HIV or full-blown AIDS -- in nearby countries the rate’ is one* In lour,
even one In three -- but Mbeki pointed out that the I 1.000 delegates in this modern city would not have time to visit the* ravaged countryside.
"You will not see the South African and African world ... in which AIDS thrives -- a partner with poverty, with sulfering, with social disadvantage, and with inequity," he said, arguing that poverty was tin* main cause of Africa's health problems, and that "it seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus."
His unorthodox views, and an invitation to "dissident" scientists to sit on an advisory panel, brought a "Durban declaration" by 5.000 scientists and doctors last week who declared that good science rather than "my(lr was the answer to AIDS.
Theme of the conference -- In a region still riven with taboos -- Is Break the Silence."
On Sunday, health experts unveiled plans for swift, global release of a future vaccine for the* AIDS virus that would break the mould of pharmaceutical pricing to help poorer countries.
The blueprint drawn up by the US-based foundation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) seeks to avoid a repeat of the delayed, skewed distribution of other vaccines that have left millions exposed to measles, hepatitis, yellow fever and other avoidable diseases.
"The onec-emptv vaccine pipeline Is beginning to move, with a number of promising approaches in development." said lAVIs president. Seth Berkley.