'€œWe believe that after six months, our patients will have become strong so they can go back and do their usual work,'€ said Esther Oduli, a social worker in Western Kenya, who works for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH).

When the International AIDS Conference was last held in Washington, D.C. in 1987, Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, the Soviet Union stood, a wall scarred a divided Berlin and China'€™s economy was roughly the size of Spain'€™s. The wider world '€“ and the AIDS epidemic '€“ has changed more than anyone foresaw. By David Wilson