They have lost their youth, but gained enough wealth to buy the company of many young consorts.

Scientists, activists and policymakers today touted condoms as a trusted weapon in the fight against AIDS, dismissing President George Bush’s policy of abstinence as a “serious setback” in global efforts to control the pandemic.

SINGER and third world campaigner Bob Geldof and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be in Dublin later this month for the largest-ever conference on the escalating HIV/AIDS problem in Europe and Central Asia.