Addis Ababa, Dec 5, 2011 (SPS) - The international conference on AIDS in Africa opened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, under the theme “the fight against AIDS and the means employed for taking support.”
The conference will bring together more than 7,000 delegates, including health professionals and scientists on the front lines of the battle against sexually-transmitted infections in order to raise public awareness.
Roughly 22.5 million of the world's 33 million AIDS sufferers are in Africa.