The international AIDS conference in Mexico City has ended with calls for better educational and preventative programmes against the immunodeficiency disease.
The director of the UN Development Programme's AIDS group Jeffrey O'malley said there is still no wonder cure in sight. Rising world food prices are an Hostage stand-off in Dutch city ...
Merkel in Brazil for first stage of Latin-America tour ...
Merkel arrives in Brazil ... added burden for people infected with the HIV virus, according to World Vision's coordinator for Latin America. Ramon Soto says undernourishment leads to greater problems with medication. Another organisation Oxfam says the conference failed to deliver a clear plan to provide treatment for all of the world's 33 million infected. South Africa's justice minister Edwin Cameron called for an end to discrimination against AIDs victims. The next international AIDS conference will be held in Vienna, Austria in 2010.
(Deutsche Welle)
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