Protest as AIDS congress starts
“Broken promises kill” – that was the message from demonstrators as an international AIDS conference began in Vienna.
Monday, 19.07.2010.
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“Broken promises kill” – that was the message from demonstrators as an international AIDS conference began in Vienna. Demanding that rich nations deliver on a pledge that all those needing AIDS drugs should get them, activists marched into the congress center. Protest as AIDS congress starts Their tone was echoed on stage, with a rebuke for politicians. “Over the last year, the same leaders had absolutely no problem finding money at a moment’s notice to bail out their corporate friends, the greedy Wall Street bankers and yet when it comes to global health, the purse is always empty,” said Julio Montaner, the head of the International AIDS Society The statistics are staggering. More than 33 million people have the AIDS virus. AIDS has killed 25 million people since the early 1980s. Yet a report published at the conference found that last year, amid the economic crisis, donor nations’ overall support for the global AIDS effort flattened out. Another new study offered greater hope on the medical front. It found that treating HIV patients with cocktails of drugs not only can help them live longer, but can also be a powerful way of limiting the spread of the incurable virus.
Protest as AIDS congress starts
Their tone was echoed on stage, with a rebuke for politicians.“Over the last year, the same leaders had absolutely no problem finding money at a moment’s notice to bail out their corporate friends, the greedy Wall Street bankers and yet when it comes to global health, the purse is always empty,” said Julio Montaner, the head of the International AIDS Society
The statistics are staggering. More than 33 million people have the AIDS virus. AIDS has killed 25 million people since the early 1980s.
Yet a report published at the conference found that last year, amid the economic crisis, donor nations’ overall support for the global AIDS effort flattened out.
Another new study offered greater hope on the medical front. It found that treating HIV patients with cocktails of drugs not only can help them live longer, but can also be a powerful way of limiting the spread of the incurable virus.
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