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A series of reports about new problems with anti-AIDS drugs and setbacks in vaccine trials left many participants thinking that their best hope against the epidemic is the strategy they have had since it began -- prevention. The mood was a sharp contrast to the euphoria at the last AIDS meeting, in Vancouver, British Columbia, two years ago. There, scientists reported that combinations of new drugs, called protease inhibitors, had allowed many people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, to leave their deathbeds, even to return to work. As Dr. Hoosen Coovadia, of Durban, South Africa, explained it, AIDS affects 40% of the children he treats in a large black hospital there. Yet, Coovadia, who is chairman of the next World AIDS Conference in 2000 in Durban, said that he had never used any anti-HIV drugs. His hospital cannot afford them, he said

AIDS virus infections worldwide have risen 10 percent over the past year, showing a disturbing lack of progress in prevention, the U.N. AIDS Program in Geneva said in a report issued Monday. The document, released as part of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, also reported that the spread is largest among young people and more women are becoming infected. Overall, the number of people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, rose by 5.8 million, to 33.4 million from 27.6 million

William H. Gates, chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, and his wife, Melinda, will announce a gift of $100 million today to speed the delivery of vaccines against four childhood diseases to developing countries. The donation, to be announced in New York City, is Mr. Gates's second largest, and it comes as he is battling Government antitrust charges in Federal District Court in Washington. But Mr. Gates said in an interview that the donation was part of his expanding philanthropic effort, and that its timing with the trial was coincidental. Mr. Gates is the world's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of at least $60 billion. Mr. Gates, who has been criticized for not being more generous, said he and his wife had given $2 billion to create two foundations. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates said $164 million had been distributed. Mr. Gates has also said he would eventually give away about 95 percent of his fortune

[Bill Gates], chairman of Microsoft Corp., and his wife, Melinda, will announce a gift of $100-million today to speed the delivery of vaccines against four childhood diseases to developing countries. Mr. Gates, 43, is the world's wealthiest person, with an estimated net worth of at least $60-billion. Mr. Gates, who has been criticized for not being more generous, said he and his wife had given $2-billion to create two foundations. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates said $164-million had been distributed. Mr. Gates has also said he will eventually give away about 95% of his fortune

AIDS virus infections worldwide have risen 10 percent over the past year, showing a disturbing lack of progress in prevention, the U.N. AIDS Program in Geneva said in a report issued Monday. The document, released as part of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, also reported that the spread is largest among young people and more women are becoming infected. Overall, the number of people infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, rose by 5.8 million, to 33.4 million from 27.6 million. All but 5 percent of the infections occurred in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe