United States: New World Bank AIDS Chief Says Prevention Challenges Remain.

Section: General News - Through that combination of effective prevention and sustained treatment we can really arrest this epidemic.

The new head of the World Bank's Global HIV/AIDS Program says much more needs to done to lower infection rates.

Dr. David Wilson, a Zimbabwean national, takes over the job just prior to this month's 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. He says familiar challenges remain some 30 years into the epidemic. I think that the major challenge 30 years on is the challenge that we faced 30 years ago. And that is making prevention work.

He says there have been some striking prevention successes in concentrated epidemics in the North, Asia and Latin America. But immense challenges remain in Africa, …