AIDS

TORONTO -- Remember the 60s song, I fought the law and the law won? Forty years after the tune came out, people are still humming it, at least I am -- although I’ve changed the lyrics a bit to sum up the political consequences of this AIDS conference. I’m not sure that the 24,000 delegates would like the new lyric I’ve thought up for them, but here goes, anyway: I fought AIDS and the Right won.

What does that mean?… more

TORONTO -- You definitely see and hear it all at an international AIDS conference. But amidst the cacophony, some constructive voices can still be identified.

The 24,000 conferees all want to be visible and vocal -- as do some who aren’t even here. On Sunday, for example, Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus back in the ‘80s, was quoted on the front page of The Toronto Star as saying that the conference was "irrelevant" and "silly." He added that if… more