“We need less AIDS for the money and more money for AIDS,” declared Dr Stefano Bertozzi, the executive director of a UNAIDS collaborating centre in Mexico, at the plenary on the second day of IAS 2009 in Cape Town.
Bertozzi made a strong case for implementing HIV prevention strategies that are strategic, focused, effective and have a long-term vision.
“It is time to stop implementing large-scale interventions of uncertain value without measured effectiveness,” he said, pointing out, for example, that nobody has measured the efficacy of abstinence education.
In 2007 an estimated 2.7million people were newly-infected, only one sign that prevention on a large-scale is not yet working.
Bertozzi suggested that delegates visit aids2031.org to contribute to the long-term vision to stop HIV.

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