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Striving for Common Ground, U.N. Tackles AIDS
June 24, 2001
By CHRISTOPHER S. WREN
UNITED NATIONS, June 22 -- The devastation is not in dispute. Worldwide, 36 million people are estimated to have AIDS or be carrying the virus that causes it. Nearly 22 million have died, many of them children. And new infections gallop on, at the rate of 5 million last year.
But trying to forge a consensus for action has exposed fault lines at the United Nations. Starting Monday, 3,000 diplomats, government officials, health experts and members of advocacy groups will gather for three days in the General Assembly to discuss how to cope with a medical catastrophe that has accumulated political baggage since the virus was identified two decades ago.
Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company
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RELATED WEBSITES
United Nations
http://www.un.org
United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS
http://www.un.org/ga/aids/coverage
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by GHC Web Tech on 24 June 2001
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