Bangkok: The End of Broken Promises? XV International AIDS Conference, 2004
Daniel A. Stefanski
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Western Hospital, Footscray, Vic. 3011, Australia; all correspondence by email: contrasts39-aids@yahoo.com.au
Sexual Health 1(3) 181-186 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH04037
Submitted: 30 August 2004 Published: 23 September 2004
Abstract
The global community has gain failed to significantly confront the AIDS crisis. In the context of a worsening HIV pandemic, the conference highlighted the shortfall in funding, the soaring infection rate in Asia, the need to integrate prevention and treatment and the difficulties in coordinating a global response. To overcome AIDS, the global community must put aside ideology and honour its commitments.
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