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Bright Spots, Lost Chances on AIDS
Sept. 12, 2006
By Lawrence K. Altman, M.D.
The theme of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto last month, "Time to Deliver," was, in part, a call for everyone responsible for AIDS work to explain what they had done and not done to achieve the goal of stopping AIDS.
Four million people in the world became infected with H.I.V. last year, raising to 40 million the number now living with the virus that causes AIDS. Though governments, foundations and others are spending billions of dollars each year, the United Nations and AIDS experts say billions more are needed for drugs to help infected people in poor countries and for measures to prevent others from becoming infected.
With 26,000 participants, the Toronto conference was the largest ever on AIDS, and its main organizer, the International AIDS Society, is now asking participants for an evaluation.
Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 13 September 2006
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