COLOMBO, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- The 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) opened Sunday in Sri Lankan, Colombo, with an attendance of 2,500 delegates from over 70 countries and regions mostly in Asia and the Pacific.
The five-day congress from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, which brings together politicians, government officials, medical experts, academics, people living with HIV/AIDS, community workers and the media, is set to discuss a wide range of issues with regard to the epidemic that is confronting this region.
With seven regional congresses held so far from the inaugural summit in Canberra, Australia (1990) to Kobe, Japan (2005), the eighth venue -- Colombo -- is the first occasion where a high-level summit on this topic is taking place in a low HIV prevalence country. read more
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