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Dear Readers,
Each year, the physician-editors of Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care offer their perspective on the year's most important stories in HIV medicine. In reviewing these stories for 2009, one is struck by a remarkable sense of progress in the field, especially in prevention. Unlike last year, when disappointing studies in this area seemed to dominate the headlines, this past year brought first-ever positive signals for vaccines and microbicides (though the latter was tempered by a later negative report), plus a growing appreciation that HIV treatment itself is a remarkably effective way to prevent HIV transmission. Although there is a relative lack of novel new agents in development, the reason behind this shortage is only positive…