Epidemiologist Seth Berkley, founder and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, speaks at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. (Dan Bayer/Courtesy of the Aspen Institute)
The 2010 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
The hunt for an AIDS vaccine
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Experts gathered this week in Vienna at an international AIDS conference, and there was good news about a vaginal gel that could prevent transmission of the HIV virus. But scientists are still looking for what some have called the Holy Grail of AIDS prevention: a vaccine. Epidemiologist Seth Berkley, founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, speaks at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival about the prospects for a vaccine.
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Dr. Seth Berkley: Epidemiologist and founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a global non-profit. Berkley previously held positions at the US Centers for Disease Control, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Carter Center.
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Laurie Garrett: Senior fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Garrett is a science writer who has won both the Pultizer Prize and a Peabody. She is the author of "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance."
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