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18 and Prevention (CDC), so perhaps his concern emerged gradually throughout the year as Walt Dowdle kept him abreast of the latest information on the pandemic.11 Whatever the reason, the tipping point appears to have occurred at that meeting in Karlsbad towards the end of 1984. Jo Asvall, a Norwegian and the Regional Director for the European Office of WHO from

1985 to 2000, remembers being struck that Assaad had not put AIDS on the agenda;

that Assaad and WHO had essentially ignored it or avoided it.12 It was Professor S.?Dittman, the famous virolo- gist from the Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Epidemiology in Berlin, who had first broached the subject of AIDS that evening, highlighting the tremendous concern health care providers in his country and elsewhere had about AIDS.?As we have explained, Assaad at this stage seems to have grown concerned about AIDS, though he still largely considered it a problem for high-income countries. He had not wanted to involve his Communicable Diseases Division in Geneva in a problem he considered to be of such limited scope, but he had been willing for EURO [WHO'

s Regional Office for Europe] to take over AIDS.

13 As we noted above, at some point in the meeting Assaad found his position assailed by the other infectious disease specialists. They argued vociferously over the relative merits of WHO'

s modest ........