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Issue 26, September 2006
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Welcome to issue seventeen of  ,
the monthly newsletter from the MSD Interpharma HIV Team.
MSD @ the XVIth International Conference on AIDS, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Sunday, August 13, 2006:
Co-chaired by Dr Helen D. Gayle from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Dr Mark A. Wainberg, Director, McGill University AIDS Center, the XVIth International AIDS Conference opened in the largest city in Canada on the theme: "Time to Deliver".
Aboriginal, national, provincial and city officials warmly welcomed the 34,000 people who had gathered from more than 170 countries to listen to prominent international experts and meet their peers in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Time to Deliver is to remind us of past and present commitments for action on HIV/AIDS and to underscore the need to dramatically scale up access to HIV prevention and treatment. Among its objectives, the conference seeked to influence key policy makers to increase commitments and take responsible action based on evidence.
Twenty five years after the discovery of HIV, despite the huge amount of money injected in the fight against HIV/AIDS worldwide, and the efforts to make simplified antiretroviral (ARVs) therapies available at more affordable prices, there still are millions of people who do not have access to prevention, care and treatment.
Today, the issue is no longer exclusively that of funding, but more and more that of logistics, human resources and communication. More...
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