IT WAS 1990, in Nyon, a Swiss town a few kilometres along the lakeshore from
Geneva. Jonathan Mann had asked to do the interview there. He was about to tell
the World Health Organization that he would quit if it didn’t do more about
AIDS. Not the moment to be seen in Geneva talking to a reporter like me.
Mann had built the WHO AIDS programme from nothing. His leadership is still
cited as crucial in launching the fight against HIV in the developing world.
Without him, things would now be even worse. When governments wanted to ignore
the HIV…
