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MARIO RITTER: Welcome to the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. I’m Mario Ritter. The International AIDS Conference is the world’s top event for people working on the issue of HIV, for those living with HIV, and for those affected by it. The conference is held every two years. But this year’s event is special. It is the first time the United States has held the International AIDS Conference in twenty-two years.
The International AIDS Society organizes the conference, also called AIDS 2012. It decided to hold the conference in America after President Obama ended a ban barring HIV infected people from entering the country. The ban ended on January fourth twenty ten.
This week we explore the opening of this historic conference. Faith Lapidus and Christopher Cruise tell us more.
FAITH LAPIDUS: San Francisco AIDS expert Dr. Diane Havlir is co-chair of AIDS 2012. Earlier in July, she told reporters in Washington that this year’s event was historic.
DIANE HAVLIR: “But probably the most important reason why we think this is going to be a historic event is because we really do think we are at a turning point of this epidemic. For the first time ever, and I’ve been working in this field since the very beginning, we feel like we can declare that we are at the beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic.”
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