Reports presented at the Sixth International Conference on Aids are summarized including efforts to develop a vaccine, expansion of the epidemic into new areas, the high rate of infection among Romanian children, the crisis in Africa, and evidence of relapsing behaviors among homosexual men in the United States. (MLW)

Some information from the University of Pennsylvania's experience with foreign medical scholars illustrates the potential dimension of a larger Soviet presence in American academic medicine. Some issues to be addressed in improving the Soviet quality of health care are described. (MLW)