Harper Suddenly Sensitive to AIDS?

CanWest is reporting that Harper will announce a joint project with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fund a high-tech facility for clinical trials for AIDS vaccines. The Canadian government will pony up $110m and the Gates Foundation's share will be $28m. I wonder if Harper thinks this will make people forget how he snubbed the World AIDS Conference in Toronto last summer, as well as the Outgames in Montreal.