HIV preventative care is a huge issue for activists. Gilead Sciences in Cork manufactures the drug Truveda. Caomhan Keane meets the head of commercial operations.

AS the world prepared for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, some Europeans have questioned the deluge of ecstatic praise for the pontiff as well as the participation of scores of heads of state.

As the political and financial elite converged at the World Economic Forum in New York, so too has a broad swathe of the world’s protest movements - motivated by calls to lower the cost of Aids drugs, improve the treatment of workers in poor countries and protect the environment.