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S. Korea to host 10th Asia-Pacific AIDS Congress
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South Korea will host an international conference on AIDS (acquired immune
deficiency syndrome) in its southern port city of Busan this month, the local
organizing committee said Tuesday.
The 10th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) will be held from Friday to Tuesday, co-hosted by South Korea, UNAIDS and the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific.
It will be the largest AIDS conference to be held in South Korea with some 4,000 people from 70 countries attending the forum, according to the organizing committee.
Cho Myung-hwan, a biotechnology professor from Seoul's Konkuk University who heads the organizing committee, said AIDS has now become a "type of chronic disease," which does not prevent a healthy, long-lasting life if treated properly.
The biennial conference mainly aims to promote regional collaboration in fighting the disease by sharing the ideas of people infected and affected by AIDS, and also by sharing the latest scientific and policy developments between people and governments.
Cho, however, said the conference in Busan will help raise the country's awareness, as well as its people's tolerance toward the disease, first discovered 30 years ago.
"I hope this upcoming congress will become an opportunity that works off our society's underlined discrimination and bias upon AIDS," he was quoted as saying.
As of the end of 2010, there were 34 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus in the world, according to UNAIDS, with about 7,000 of them in South Korea.
On Monday, South Korea's Health Ministry said the country's first AIDS patient was still alive after nearly 26 years.
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2011.08.23
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The 10th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) will be held from Friday to Tuesday, co-hosted by South Korea, UNAIDS and the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific.
It will be the largest AIDS conference to be held in South Korea with some 4,000 people from 70 countries attending the forum, according to the organizing committee.
Cho Myung-hwan, a biotechnology professor from Seoul's Konkuk University who heads the organizing committee, said AIDS has now become a "type of chronic disease," which does not prevent a healthy, long-lasting life if treated properly.
The biennial conference mainly aims to promote regional collaboration in fighting the disease by sharing the ideas of people infected and affected by AIDS, and also by sharing the latest scientific and policy developments between people and governments.
Cho, however, said the conference in Busan will help raise the country's awareness, as well as its people's tolerance toward the disease, first discovered 30 years ago.
"I hope this upcoming congress will become an opportunity that works off our society's underlined discrimination and bias upon AIDS," he was quoted as saying.
As of the end of 2010, there were 34 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus in the world, according to UNAIDS, with about 7,000 of them in South Korea.
On Monday, South Korea's Health Ministry said the country's first AIDS patient was still alive after nearly 26 years.
Source: Yonhap News (August 23, 2011)