MEXICO CITY, Aug 8, 2008 (AFP) - The next International AIDS Conference, a massive meeting of experts and activists, will take place in July, 2010, in Vienna, Austria, the International AIDS Society (IAS) said Friday.
Austria was chosen for the 18th world AIDS meeting due to its proximity to eastern Europe and Central Asia, both facing growing AIDS problems, the IAS said as the latest six-day conference wrapped up here.
Some 150,000 people were newly infected with HIV in eastern Europe and Central Asia in 2007, according to UNAIDS, and a total of 1.6 million are now infected. The number of infections in those regions have increased by 150 percent since 2001.
Canadian Julio Montaner, director of the British Colombia Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, on Friday took over from Argentinian Pedro Cahn to head the IAS, which changes president every two years after its international meeting.
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