Although a cure is still not in hand, the worst fear, the one that seeded a decade with despair, the foreboding sense that the AIDS virus might be invincible, has finally been subdued.

• 尽管现在还没有找到治疗的方法，但是十年来令人沮丧的那种最大恐惧，那种认为艾滋病毒可能无法战胜的不祥之兆，总算已经克服了。