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AIDS conference in dispute Boston Globe The top UN official on AIDS ended an international conference on HIV and AIDS yesterday by questioning whether such gatherings should be held at all. "It's the right time to rethink ICASA, its format, its value, and whether the huge investments we make in such conferences are justified," Peter Piot, director of UNAIDS, told delegates at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa. The closing ceremonies of the weeklong event were interrupted earlier by more than 30 AIDS activists who drowned out a speech by the top US representative at the ceremony, Leslie Rowe, the new charge d'affaires at the US Embassy in Nairobi.
—Posted: September 27, 2003
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