What is the latest research on AIDS?

Canada has been criticized (by Canadians) for not doing enough for AIDS research. What do you think?

• PM, Aglukkaq slammed on AIDS at world meeting Canada isn't doing enough to fight AIDS at home or around the world, the Canadian head of the International AIDS Society said Friday. In his closing address to the International AIDS Conference in Vienna on Friday, conference chief Dr. Julio Montaner slammed Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq. "I would also like to have a special word of recognition to the prime minister of Canada, Mr. Stephen Harper … for demonstrating, yet again, their incredible ability to take credit where none is due." Montaner, one of Canada's most prominent AIDS researchers, said the federal government is "punching well below its weight" in funding international efforts to fight the disease and isn't doing enough to protect Canadians from its spread. During the conference, activists slammed rich G8 countries, including Canada, for failing to deliver on their commitment to ensure everyone infected with HIV and AIDS gets treatment by 2010. In 2005, G8 leaders committed to developing and implementing an Africa-focused package for HIV prevention, treatment and care with the aim of getting "as close as possible to universal access to treatment for all those who need it by 2010." Treating drug use as a health issue instead of a criminal one cuts down on the spread of AIDS, said Glyn Townson, chair of the British Columbia Persons with AIDS Society. "If you get people connected to services, whether they're active drug users or not, the HIV medications will work, and that also decreases chance of the disease spreading further," Townson said. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister's Office said the government is spending $72 million inside Canada on AIDS this year and more than $150 million a year internationally. With files from The Associated Press

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  I'm not from Canada, but I'm guessing that there's just so much money available for research and that the various forms of cancer and other diseases most likely to affect Canadians are getting the lion's share.