Finally, France's former Socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius, secretary of state for health Edmund Herve and social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix are to be tried in a parliamentary court in

Changing social attitudes and behaviour has helped in the control of AIDS.

Doctors and social workers advocate awareness as the best way to prevent AIDS, a disease that has no vaccine or cure, from spreading.

As scientists debate which of two new pesticides should be used in the fight against malaria, the toll in the disease slowly rises.

Third World countries warned at Amsterdam recently that even if more effective vaccines and drugs become available, they may not be afford them.