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International AIDS Conference - Toronto, 13-18 August 2006

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Co-organized by UNAIDS, the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, ICW and ICASO among others, the conference aims to bring together the movement of people responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic to share their lessons and together stake out the road ahead. The AIDS 2006 theme: "time to deliver", underscores the continued urgency in bringing effective HIV prevention and treatment strategies to communities the world over. Toronto Canada, 13-18 August 2006. Related Choike reports: AIDS: wealth before health, Health and health services, goods for sale, Patents and medicines. Versión en español A ghastly disease feeds off a ghastlier oppression HIV/AIDS prevention programmes will be ineffective without programmes to reduce violence against women, especially young women. These issues are not just African but apply to Southeast Asia and Latin America. [see more] AIDS 2006: Amnesty International public statement Amnesty International and other human rights advocates drew attention to a number of areas where government failure to honour their human rights commitments is undermining effective responses to the pandemic. [see more] Gov'ts harshly berated at close of AIDS meet Action - not promises or pledges or more meetings - is what will bring the HIV/AIDS pandemic under control and save tens of millions of lives, concluded delegates at the wrap-up of the 16th annual International AIDS Conference in Toronto. [see more]

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