The chemistry effort represents a new sophistication among AIDS advocates, who fear a wave of HIV deaths in developing countries due to flat funding for international treatment programs.
The severity of the AIDS crisis has led the World Bank to fear that it will make it difficult to achieve some of the Millennium Development goals agreed by the United Nations in September 2000.
In 1986, Mr. Cooper wrote a policy memo for the Reagan administration that argued a law prohibiting discrimination based on handicap didn't apply to employers who wanted to fire employees with AIDS, if the basis for the decision was fear of catching the disease.