The 18th International AIDS conference opened...in Vienna on Sunday...The biennial conference...cover[s]...new drugs and therapies, universal access, the human rights dimension of the epidemic, including stigma and discrimination, but also the impact of intellectual property rights on access to treatment...Michel Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS and under secretary-general of the United Nations, said, “We need to make sure that we bring the pharmaceutical industry to start reopening the debate about a new generation of treatment”...[and] open a debate on the World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and TRIPS-plus measures...