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/ 21 July 2006

Human rights abuses fuel Aids pandemic

Thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto, Canada, next month for the Sixteenth International Aids Conference. "We have the knowledge to defeat HIV now, we know what is effective, and that is recognising that the epidemic is caused by human rights abuses, which fuel the epidemic," said Joseph Amon, director of the HIV/Aids programme at Human Rights Watch.