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The 2012 International AIDS Conference is a gathering of policymakers, scientists, delegates, advocates, persons living with HIV/AIDS and others working to end the disease.

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Policymakers, scientists, delegates, advocates, persons living with HIV/AIDS and others working to end the disease gather in D.C..

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International AIDS conference: New HIV foundation, study on youth and risky behavior

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Timothy Ray Brown announces new foundation; Rate of risky sexual behavior down among black high school students.

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International AIDS Conference will have a big footprint in host city D.C. next week

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With more than 21,000 people from 177 countries registered, this year’s conference is expected to be the largest such gathering.

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International AIDS Conference brings two families together in fight against disease

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Two families are brought together from opposite sides of the world in a fight against the disease.

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Heart of International AIDS Conference found in quiet moments of personal sharing

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Away from the panels and symposiums, people from countries a world apart met and talked — really talked — about common problems in their struggles to combat HIV/AIDS.

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Everything’s different (almost) since last international AIDS conference in U.S.

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As the International AIDS Conference returns to the U.S., the disease’s story in 2012 captures the turn of the millennium as a time of optimism as well as crisis.

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Elton John at AIDS conference: ‘I should be dead’

Elton John spoke at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday and said that because he did not take precautions, he should have contracted HIV in the 1980s.

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Clinton at AIDS Conference: Envisions an AIDS-free future

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke at the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday. She welcomed the conference back to the U.S. for the first time in 22 years.

 

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