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AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #301, August 21, 1998
John S. James
This conference is chaired by The Most Rev. Desmond Tutu, and prominent Mexican pediatrician Patricia Uribe Zuniga. Sponsors include International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, Consejo Nacional para la Prevencion y Control del SIDA, Harvard AIDS Institute, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization, and The World Bank. Funders include Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Wellcome, Roche Laboratories, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics, DuPont Merck, and Ortho Biotech.
Objectives are: "To discuss the human right to healthcare and harm reduction strategies that can reduce unnecessary suffering and death; to examine the economic and ethical challenges faced by a global community of individuals, governments, and nongovernment entities in their efforts to reduce unnecessary suffering and death; and to propose solutions to reduce unnecessary suffering and death."
More information is available at http://www.iapac.org; or contact the conference secretariat, International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, 225 W. Washington Street, Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606-3418, phone 312-419-7078.
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