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The Postive Futures team the Barcelona Conference with a colourful poster extoling the virtues of working in partnership. L to R: Moono Nyambe, Andrew Little (Director) and Allan Anderson.
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Over 30,000 people from around the world descended on Barcelona in early July for the XIV International Aids Conference. Among these were over 16,000 accredited delegates representing doctors, public health officials, activists, researchers and non-government organisations. The biggest delegation came from the USA with 4,105 delegates, then Spain with 1,634. The UK and France sent 866 and 731 delegates respectively. Every hotel in the Barcelona area was full for the conference period and the local Catalan tourism office estimated that the conference generated over €360 million (£240 Million) for the city's economy.
Another 45 million with HIV by 2010 - UNAIDS
There will be another 45 million worldwide with HIV by the year 2010 and 68 million deaths from Aids by 2020, unless governments adopt the package of measures agreed at last year's UN Special General Assembly on Aids, is the grim prediction from UNAIDS. But Dr Bernard Schwartlander, director of HIV/Aids at the World Health Organisation,
