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| | WHO WHO and HIV/AIDS |
 | | Speaking today at the 14th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA), in Abuja, Nigeria, Jim Yong Kim, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) HIV/AIDS Department, emphasized the importance of a public health approach in promoting long-term sustainability and equity of HIV treatment access programmes in resource-limited settings. |
 | | The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO Member States to help them scale up treatment, care and prevention services as well as drugs and diagnostics supply to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS. |
 | | The stories tell lives of people living with HIV and AIDS in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America and present some of the real faces of the epidemic that, by the end of 2005, had infected 40.3 million people. |
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