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HEALTH AIDS is becoming a greater threat in rural areas of the devloping world than in the cities, undermining agricultural systems and jeopardizing food security, a U.N body said Thursday. |
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Of the 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS, an overwhelming 95 % live in the developing countries, the UN Food & Agriculture Org (FAO) said in a statement. |
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"Within those countries, AIDS is becoming a greater threat in rural areas than in the cities", the FAO said. |
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Toronto Metro Jan. 05/2001 |
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Toronto - XVth International AIDS Conference. |
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The XVth International AIDS Conference in 2004 will be held in Toronto, Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock announced. Ottawa, Aug. 4 (CNA) As many as 15,000 delegates will gather in Toronto in 2004 for one of the biggest medical conference on earth -- the World AIDS Congress. Canada has previously hosted the AIDS congress in Montreal in 1989 and in Vancouver in 1996. The conference has been held in the United States three times, but new travel restrictions on AIDS and HIV victims now prevent it from being scheduled in that country. The medical meeting is expected to inject about C$15 million into Toronto's economy, which is already the locomotive of the Canadian economy. But Ron Rosenes of AIDS Action Now said the congress is much more than a financial bonanza for the host city. "This is our opportunity to give the epidemic a human face," Rosenes said Wednesday, after Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman announced the city had been chosen to host the conference. (By S. C. Chang) The United States was not considered, as the conference requires visitors to disclose their HIV status in order to enter the country. Specific dates for August are yet to be confirmed. (DaveyBoy) |
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Gates Pledges $100 Million For AIDS Vaccine. |
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday announced a $100 million "challenge grant" to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, designed to "encourage others at the conference of global business and government leaders to contribute" to the search for an AIDS vaccine, the AP/Salt Lake Tribune reports. Gates' commitment, which is not dependent on matching funds, will be given between 2002 and 2006, during which time IAVI hopes to develop and test 25 possible vaccines. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to sponsor trials for eight to 12 such vaccines and has raised $230 million of the projected $550 million cost. Calling the absence of an AIDS vaccine 20 years after the outbreak of HIV "an unbelievable market failure," Gates said that his "private push" was meant to correct that inadequacy. He added that because the majority of new HIV infections occur in poorer countries, "there's no way commercial companies are going to see [an AIDS vaccine] as a priority." Yahoo!, the first corporate sponsor of IAVI, on Saturday also pledged $5 million to be spent over three years on a public awareness campaign on its world-wide network of Internet sites (Geitner, AP/Salt Lake Tribune 1/27). Thanks Mr. Bill Gates, you give me hope. (DaveyBoy, CHPC) |
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