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 LGBT News reports,

"UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe and US Congresswoman Barbara Lee to join Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine, Research Experts and Activists in Vienna for Day-Long Event

Oakland, Calif., July 1, 2010 /LGBT News/ More than 100 of the world's top experts on human rights and HIV among sexual minorities will lead presentations and workshops in Vienna on July 17 at BE HEARD, an all-day conference event to address soaring global rates of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM). BE HEARD is the largest gathering to focus on the disproportionate impact of HIV among gay men. The event will precede the launch of AIDS 2010, the XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC).

Hosted by the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), BE HEARD will focus on challenges and solutions to achieving universal access to HIV-related prevention, care, treatment, and support services for sexual minority communities worldwide. The event comes at a time when MSM in low- and middle-income countries are 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population, yet only one in five has access to the HIV prevention, care and treatment services they need."

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This is awesome! People finally are coming together to fight the plague of AIDS. Over the last few weeks, I have had a few calls from friends who have learned other friends have discovered they are HIV positive. Most of them learned from the HIV positive friends that having HIV does not mean life will end in the short term. Medicines have been produced to halt the spread of HIV in most cases, but this does not mean the threat does not exist. We still need to be careful and take safety precautions when with other people in any sexual way. There is now hope where years ago there was none. I hope you find the resources I have provided to be helpful. The First Chapter of STITCH will be hosting an awareness and prevention event in December for World AIDS Day. 

 Sincerely,

Douglas M. Harper