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Last June, Montreal played host to one of the most tumultuous and eventful meetings in recent history. The fifth International AIDS Conference attracted 12,000 delegates and 1,300 journalists from industrialized and developing nations and it broke new ground by focusing equally on the biomedical and social aspects of one of the world's most pressing health hazards. The conference produced no significant breakthroughs, but there were encouraging results in several areas, such as the development of a vaccine to prevent people getting AIDS, and it revealed the leading role played by McGill researchers in addressing the problem of AIDS.

"I have this vision. I want to take AIDS back into society, like any other disease. It will take a lot of time, education and effort, but most of all, we've got to eliminate the stigma of AIDS."
Dr. Norbert Gilmore, Royal Victoria Hospital immunologist and a leading Canadian authority on HIV/AIDS.

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