Africa: At Aids Conference, Prevention Pill Stirs Excitement

Participants in this year's International AIDS Conference welcomed progress on a new pill that may prevent transmission of the deadly HIV virus - one of the advances that have provoked celebrations as well as debates.

Medical treatment of the virus is big business, generating multibillion-dollar annual revenues.

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