Robert Gallo Calls for New Treatment Approach

On December 22 Dr. Robert Gallo, Director of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, said the Institute would research "viable and effective biological therapies for AIDS in the year ahead."

"I am determined to go into the new Millennium armed with natural, patient-friendly, nontoxic treatments so that we can reach those who are on current treatments as well as those who are less economically fortunate and cannot afford treatment now... We are determined in the next year to develop and implement biological therapies that are affordable worldwide and to Americans in impoverished areas."

The Institute noted United Nations predictions of 62 million deaths from AIDS by 2015 in sub-Saharan Africa (unless effective treatment is available).