MICHEL SIDIBE: "This time it is different. This time, together, we will end AIDS.”
FAITH LAPIDUS: AIDS conferences have become much more than places to share scientific research.
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WYCLEF JEAN: "One in five [people] with HIV don't know that they are affected, so direct the question to you. My name is Wyclef; I'm Haitian..." ((cheering))
The conferences are also about support and debate among many communities.
RODERICK MAYES: "There is no negative connotation for those other diseases, but HIV . . . ."
Roderick Omar Hayes is a former U.S. Marine. He found out eight years ago that he had HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He is concerned that that fact causes others to judge him differently.
RODERICK MAYES: "The main thing I think is the stigma, you know. Because you don't know who to talk to about it, who it's okay to talk to about. And people judge you differently, as if you're subhuman because you have HIV or AIDS."
But now Mayes says he's hopeful that will all end, if enough is done to cure the disease.
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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: AIDS 2012 has also brought attention to groups that are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. Sex workers say discrimination and old laws place them at greater risk of HIV infection, abuse and violence. They also spoke out at the International AIDS Conference.
Sex workers, along with homosexual men and intravenous drug users are three groups in which HIV infection still is rising rapidly.
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