24000 delegates from 132 countries attended the conference. The delegates included scientist, health care providers, activists, and political band business leaders. They also included people infected with AIDS and HIV, the virus that caused the disease.
The major message of the 2006 conference was ‘Time to Deliver’. This meant that it was time to bring effective treatments to people in all parts of the world. Some developing countries cannot pay for the needed drugs and prevention programmes. Conference organizers said they wanted to make it possible for everyone around the world to know about the disease and be able to prevent and treat it. Official expected the new conference website to expand the meeting’s influence. They said the website would make it easy for people unable to attend the meeting to receive information presented there. The conference website address is www. AIDS2006. org.
26 years ago, the United States Centres for Disease Control first reported about a new disease that later came to be known as AIDS. A United States report released in June 2006 said more than 65 million people have become infected with HIV since then. About 25 million of them have died of AIDS. These numbers include four million new infections in 2005 and almost three million deaths. Around the world, about 39 million people were living with HIV in 2006.
The International AIDS Conference
The 16th International AIDS Conference was (1)_______ as the world’s largest meeting in history. The number of people (2)_______ from AIDS is increasing year by year.
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