Middle East Aids - Gallo warns against complacency
NAME: MEAST AIDS 20051130I
TAPE: EF05/1060
IN_TIME: 10:21:05:05
DURATION: 00:01:45:12
SOURCES: AP/VNR
DATELINE: Bar Ilan - 29 Nov 2005/ File
RESTRICTIONS:
SHOTLIST:
AP Television
Bar Ilan, Israel - 29 November 2005
1. Dr. Robert Gallo sitting with Israeli professors at hall at Bar Ilan University
2. Medium shot Dr. Gallo
3. Cutaway to photographer
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Robert Gallo, University of Maryland:
"Are we complacent now? I think it is inevitable that some complacency has occurred because as you all know, HIV disease is now treatable for many people, not for all people of course, not for most people."
5. Close-up of notes being taken
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Robert Gallo, University of Maryland:
"It's not just bringing the drugs. We must bring training. We must bring education, we must bring teaching of how to use the drugs properly to the developing nations."
7. Israeli Professor Benjamin Sredni, Director of Safdie Institute for AIDS and Immunology Research at Bar Ilan University, at lecture
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Robert Gallo, University of Maryland:
"There is no breakthrough (referring to his work in developing a vaccine for HIV) except gradual progress in understanding how to make antibodies more, to broaden them so they cover various types (of HIV strains)."
9. Dr. Gallo with fellow professors at photo call
VNR (courtesy of Dr. Robert Gallo)
FILE: Baltimore, US - recent
10. Laboratory technician at work at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland
11. Close-up of test tubes
12. Man working at computer
13. Close-up of papers zoom out to woman working at computer
STORYLINE:
Falling HIV and AIDS rates in the developed world and the discovery of more effective drug treatments must not lead to complacency, an HIV expert has warned on the eve of World AIDS day.
Dr. Robert Gallo, from the University of Maryland in Baltimore in the United States, said more needed to be done to improve treatment in the developing world.
Gallo, who was one of a team of scientists who discovered the link between HIV and AIDS, was speaking at a lecture on Tuesday at the Bar Ilan University in central Israel after receiving a reward for his AIDS and immunology research.
He said it was not sufficient to supply medicines to developing countries, but that efforts to curb the AIDS epidemic must include education and training on how to use the medication correctly and effectively.
Currently, Gallo and his colleagues at the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland are working on developing a vaccine for HIV.
Gallo downplays any mention of a breakthrough but says there is gradual progress.
In Israel, HIV rates are relatively low but increasing slowly.
Despite this fact, the issue is not widely discussed and rarely hits the headlines in the country.