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Thousands of activists and health workers around the world work to prevent HIV/AIDS and look out for people living with the virus.
Health workers distribute booklets that
teach safe sex in the eastern Indian
city of Calcutta on July 7, 2004. India
has 5.1million people infected with HIV,
the second-largest number in the world
after South Africa. One key element of
the country's national programme to
control the spread of the disease is to
get hundreds of thousands of sex workers
to insist on clients using condoms. The
15th International HIV/AIDS Conference
is due to start in Bangkok, Thailand on
July 11, 2004. REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
REF: CAL05D
Zimbabwean HIV/AIDS orphans are weighed
during a weekly medical check at an
orphanage in Mutoko, 150 Km's North east
of Harare, in this August 2003 file
photo. Zimbabwe has one of the world's
highest infection rates with average
life expectancy, especially amongst
women, declining rapidly in the southern
African region resulting in rapidly
increasing number of HIV/AIDS orphans.
The 15th International HIV/AIDS
Conference is due to start in Bangkok,
Thailand on July 11, 2004. REUTERS/
Howard
Burditt
REF: HAR02D
A young Indian prostitute tries to put a
condom on an artifical penis as part of
an anti-AIDS drive in the eastern Indian
city of Calcutta July 7, 2004. India has
5.1million people infected with HIV, the
second-largest number in the world after
South Africa. One key element of the
country's national programme to control
the spread of the disease is to get
hundreds of thousands of sex workers to
insist on clients using condoms. The
15th International HIV/AIDS Conference
is due to start in Bangkok, Thailand on
July 11, 2004. REUTERS/Jayanta
Shaw
REF: CAL03D
A hilltribe woman sits near an AIDS
education campaign poster in Baan
Mitrathong school in Chiang Mai, north
of the Thai capital Bangkok on June 30,
2004. The Baan Mitrathong school has 52
children whose parents died of AIDS in
its care. The 15th International HIV/
AIDS Conference is due to start in
Bangkok, Thailand on July 11, 2004.
REUTERS/Sukree
Sukplang
REF: BAN03D
A 31 year old Zimbabwean woman in the
final stages of HIV/AIDS lies down at a
hospice in Harare in this August 2003
file photo. Zimbabwe has one of the
world's highest infection rates with the
average life expectancy, especially
amongst women, declining rapidly in the
southern African region. The 15th
International HIV/AIDS Conference is due
to start in Bangkok, Thailand on July 11,
2004. REUTERS/Howard
Burditt
REF: HAR01D
A South Korean activist participates in
a protest to demand the government
reform its policy over people infected
with HIV or AIDS in Seoul July 8, 2004.
The 15th International HIV/AIDS
Conference is due to start in Bangkok,
Thailand on July 11, 2004. REUTERS/
Lee Jae-
Won
REF: SEO02D
Sixty-year-old Japanese doctor Tsuneo
Akaeda tests a blood sample at a
nightclub in Tokyo June 11, 2004. Akaeda
is casual in a baseball cap, t-shirt and
purple-striped Bermuda shorts, head
bobbing to the music, but his mission is
deadly serious: free AIDS tests, an
attempt to check what experts say may be
a looming explosion of the disease. The
15th International HIV/AIDS Conference
is due to start in Bangkok, Thailand on
July 11, 2004. REUTERS/Issei
Kato
REF: TOK160D
A South Korean activist participates in
a protest to demand the government
reform its policy over people infected
with HIV or AIDS in Seoul July 8, 2004.
The 15th International HIV/AIDS
Conference is due to start in Bangkok,
Thailand on July 11, 2004. REUTERS/
Lee Jae-
Won
REF: SEO01D
HIV-infected children take their lunch
at Baan Mitrathong school in Chiang Mai
in northern Thailand June 28, 2004. The
Baan Mitrathong school takes care of 52
children whose parents died of HIV/AIDS.
The 15th International HIV/AIDS
Conference is due to start in Bangkok,
Thailand on July 11, 2004. REUTERS/
Sukree
Sukplang
REF: BAN02D
Children play with balloons at Baan
Mitrathong school in Chiang Mai, north
of Bangkok on June 28, 2004. The Baan
Mitrathong care for 52 children whose
parents died of AIDS. The 15th
International HIV/AIDS Conference is due
to start in Bangkok, Thailand on July 11,
2004. REUTERS/Sukree
Sukplang
REF: BAN04D
Thailand's 63-year-old 'Condom King',
Mechai Viravaidya hands out condoms
while on an AIDS campaign in Bangkok
July 2, 2004. Mechai, whose safe sex
gospel was hailed for helping to stop
the rampant spread of the disease in
Thailand a decade ago, now finds himself
in the thick of a renewed fight against
HIV/AIDS. The 15th International HIV/
AIDS Conference is due to start in
Bangkok, Thailand on July 11, 2004.
REUTERS/Sukree
Sukplang
REF: BAN07D
Hollywood actress Ashley Judd holds the
hands of an AIDS patient at a hospice in
Phnom Penh, Cambodia July 7, 2004. The
15th International HIV/AIDS Conference
is due to start in Bangkok, Thailand on
July 11, 2004. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea<
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