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Posted August 2, 2022, 4:36 pm
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The local organizer of an international AIDS conference in Montreal says the event helped highlight the huge advances made in HIV research and treatment technology.
Dr Jean-Pierre Routy, local chair of the conference, says the biggest breakthrough presented is research showing that a single injection of a long-acting antiretroviral drug can prevent people from contracting HIV for two months. replacing daily pills.
Despite visa issues that prevented hundreds of delegates from attending, Ruti says people from 172 countries attended the event, which ends on Tuesday.
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But Tinashe Rufurwadzo, director of programs, governance and governance at Y+ Global, an international organization of HIV-positive youth, says the AIDS 2022 conference was bittersweet.
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He says attendees were able to have meetings that would otherwise have been impossible, such as with government officials and pharmaceutical company executives, but many voices were missing because of visa issues.
More than 9,000 people were scheduled to attend in person, with another 2,000 people registered to participate online.
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