World Community Pledges to Eradicate AIDS
World News • June 2011 • Views: 795
The international community has agreed to a political declaration with ambitious targets intended to end AIDS-related deaths within ten years. The commitments were made at a high-level United Nations meeting charting the global AIDS response for the next decade. But some AIDS activists say the document does not go far enough.
The three-day conference brought together 3,000 people — heads of state and government, other high-level political leaders, activists and members of civil society.