Morning Briefing

GlobalPost reports on the GBCHealth Conference, which took place in New York City on Monday and where "panelists at a session titled 'AIDS@30' were asked how they would fulfill U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's call late last year for an 'AIDS-free generation.'" According to the news service, "Ambassador Eric Goosby, the U.S. global AIDS coordinator, said the key will likely be a combination HIV prevention strategy" that "includes expansion of treatment to help prevent new infections; major scale-up of male circumcision; and treating all HIV-positive pregnant women to end the transmission of HIV from mother to child." GlobalPost adds, "Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS executive director, said the way to defeat AIDS had to include more financial contributions from developing countries." GlobalPost quotes several other conference attendees (Donnelly, 5/15).