South Africa to host 2016 AIDS conference

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South Africa to host 2016 AIDS conference

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/south-africa-host-2016-aids-conference-180810708.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/_V_91m5ppTu9LN5ukFTjZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-HKG-Hkg10084464-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This picture taken on July 24, 2014 shows people walking past an &quot;AIDS 2014&quot; sign promoting the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne" align="left" title="This picture taken on July 24, 2014 shows people walking past an &quot;AIDS 2014&quot; sign promoting the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne" border="0" /></a>South Africa's port city of Durban will host the 21st International AIDS Conference in 2016, marking the forum's return to Africa after 16 years, organisers said on Friday. Gathering scientists, policymakers and grassroots workers, the biennial conference is the biggest single get-together on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. The 20th conference in Melbourne drew around 20,000 people, of whom 13,600 were delegates and the rest were members of the public who attended an outreach event called the Global Village, the International AIDS Society (IAS) said as the six-day event wound down. The July 17-22 2016 conference will return to a venue that saw &quot;a watershed&quot; in the history of AIDS, said Chris Beyrer, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Maryland, who will co-chair the event.</p><br clear="all"/>

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