HIV+ people stage massive die-in at Int’l AIDS Conference

Hundreds of HIV-positive people disrupted the opening of the biennial
International AIDS Conference in Vienna on July 18 by staging a massive
die-in.

Blogger Rod McCullom said the protesters “were calling attention to the
decreased funding of HIV/AIDS programs by the G8 leaders, as well as the
‘slowing and scaling back (of) their commitments toward universal access
to HIV care, treatment and prevention.'”

The protesters said U.S. President Barack Obama’s new “National HIV/AIDS
Strategy for the United States” contained no new funding for fighting the
epidemic.

By Rex Wockner

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