Africa/Global: International AIDS conference kicks off

A poster held high by a Thai activist before the opening of the International AIDS conference in Bangkok summed up the urgency of the situation: “You talk, we die, AIDS treatment, access now.” Activists urged delegates and world leaders to speed up and increase the world’s response to the epidemic which last year killed three million people and is responsible for more than 20 million deaths since the first cases of AIDS were identified in 1981.

>>> Visit the website of the Health and Development Network (http://www.hdnet.org/home2.htm) and read The Correspondent, a daily newspaper produced at the International AIDS conference, for detailed news.