Article: Fast Action Needed to Prevent Spread of AIDS in Asia, Experts Told

Asia barely has enough time to use the lessons learned elsewhere during the first dozen years of the AIDS epidemic if it wants to prevent massive spread of the disease here.

That was the sobering message offered at today's opening session of the 10th International Conference on AIDS, the premier gathering of AIDS researchers, held this year for the first time in Asia. In a speech opening the meeting, Michael H. Merson, director of the World Health Organization's Global Program on AIDS, said it is possible to stop the spread of the disease in Asia and avoid the kind of catastrophe that has befallen Africa, but only if there is immediate action.

"In places where the epidemic is just ...

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