She said it would be an extraordinary failure of global will and conscience if financial cuts blocked that chance.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: The United Nations says thirty-four million people lived with HIV / AIDS in twenty-eleven. And it says one point seven million died from the disease.
This year's conference is called "Turning the Tide Together." More than twenty thousand people are expected to attend. Famous guests include former United States President Bill Clinton, former first lady Laura Bush, singer Elton John and actress Whoopi Goldberg.
FAITH LAPIDUS: More than one thousand people marched through central Washington to call attention to HIV/AIDS on Sunday. Excitement mixed with hope at the gathering because of a feeling that AIDS might finally be overcome.
The crowds shouted their demands as they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue.
CROWD: "President Obama, AIDS Treatment Now!"
But they also celebrated.
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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: It was the first time the conference, has met in the United States since nineteen ninety. Since then, it could not be held all these years in the United States because of travel restrictions on people living with AIDS. Yet during that time, the face of the epidemic changed a great deal.
AIDS has killed more than thirty million people since the nineteen eighties. Michel Sidibe is executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS. He says treatment and prevention tools now exist that could put an end to the disease.
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