The international AIDS conference in Mexico City has ended with calls for better educational and preventive programmes against the immunodeficiency disease.
The director of the UN Development Programme's AIDS group Jeffrey O'Malley warned that no effective cure was yet in sight. Other groups cautioned that rising food prices were leading to undernourishment and adding another burden for people infected with the HIV virus. The humanitarian organisation Oxfam criticised that the conference had failed to offer a clear plan to the world's 33 million HIV sufferers. The next international AIDS conference will be held in Vienna, Austria in 2010.
(Deutsche Welle)
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