obert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute, along with a laboratory in France, first identified the human immunodeficiency virus, also known as HIV, as the cause of AIDS, a cure or a vaccine is believed to be years - maybe decades - away (Horowitz, 1995, p. 32).
At the 10th International Conference on AIDS, which united more than 11,000 scientists, journalists, AIDS activists and patients from 128 countries on August 5, 1994, in Yokohama, Japan, Dr. George Lundberg, editor of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, predicted that "'no successful method of treatment or prevention will have been fully implemented at the end of the next century and that AIDS will still be a serious endemic disease throughout the world'" (Maugh II, 1994, p. All). While other experts saw this as an extreme expression of pessimism, the pace of research has been so slow that the conference sponsors are abandoning their yearly format in favor of holding the gathering every other year. As a result, the next conclave will take place in Vancouver, Canada, in 1
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