By Niamh Scallan - 3 August 2010
At the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna last month, [Canadian HIV expert Maxine] Davis and Canadian colleagues watched as their government, refusing to stand behind the Vienna Declaration, slipped from its respected leadership role in the global fight against the disease...[A] Public Health Agency spokesperson [said] that the declaration...is inconsistent with Canada's anti-drug use policy..."That is HIV prevention policy rubbish.["]