As the InternationalAids Society's president-elect, Prof Barre-Sinoussi is leading efforts for a research strategy which could come up with a cure for HIV, or at least a mechanism which drives the virus into remission.
But studies in Taiwan and British Columbia (the latter by Julio Montaner, the incoming president of the InternationalAIDSSociety, which organises the conference) have shown big falls in transmission rates as ARVs have been rolled out.