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The International AIDS Conference gathers more than 20,000 scientists, activities, victims and personalities from all walks of life every two years to analyse progress, failures and challenges to eradicate the epidemics by 2030. After 16 years, the Conference once again was held in Durban, South Africa. There, during the 13th Conference in the year 2000, the fight for access to medicines for AIDS changed forever, as we mentioned in this article published at Eldiario.es.
The conference recovered the spirit of 2000. On the first day, more than 8,000 people took to the streets with express demands for the highest authorities within Governments and international health organisations like WHO and UNAIDS. We wrote this story for El Mundo. Many issues were discussed at the Conference, all of vital importance: the lack of a vaccine or cure for AIDS, the problems of patents and prices in relation to essential drugs needed for people to live, the lack of treatment for millions of victims, failures in prevention and much more. One of the most noteworthy was the drama being seen in middle-income countries in view of the abandonment of international aid and the delicate situation of key populations (women, adolescents, men who have sex with other men, sex workers, drug users, and prisoners). We published an article in Eldiario.es to explain it well. Thus, while funding should be on the rise, many countries are maintaining or reducing bilateral and multilateral contributions to the fight against AIDS. An acute case of this can be found in our country: Spain has not donated a single euro since 2011 to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a key organisation working to end these epidemics. We told of cases of other countries which are true examples in this article in El Mundo. |
Photo Album Durban 2016
FIGHT AGAINST AIDS,
TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
High-Level United Nations Meeting on AIDS
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International AIDS Conference: Durban 2016
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Meeting with the Secretary of State
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Congress of Deputies Meeting
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Conferencia de Reposición de Fondos de Canadá
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World AIDS Day
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Erika Castellanos
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Politicians and the Global Fund at the Fine Arts Circle
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