One evening, the University of Manitoba's Frank Plummer invited me to his home in Nairobi, Kenya, for a drink. The de facto head of a long-running AIDS research project based at the University of Nairobi, Plummer has had great frustrations watching research advances languish because of government inaction. But he blames social stigmas, too. He told me the story of a woman he knows whose family had her blood tested for HIV without first explaining to her what was happening. "They found out it was HIV positive, and they wouldn't tell her," said Plummer. "And then they basically kidnapped her baby."

(Photograph by Malcolm Linton)

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