Innovative Plenaries Promise Diversity of Views at XI International Conference on AIDS [International Conference on AIDS (11th: 1996: Vancouver, Canada)]

04/09/96 TUE 19:23 FAX [phone] XI INTL CONO AIDS
- 2 -By incorporating the One World; One Hope Lecture series in the body of the Plenary
Program, the Organising Committee has deliberately elected to highlight the positive
achievements that have taken place in HIV/AIDS research, clinical testing, epidemiology
and behavioral science since the last International AIDS Conference in 1994.
"We are determined to eventually defeat this epidemic. In doing so, we must
constantly adapt to changing currents of thought. In selecting our Plenary Speakers we
have made a strategic decision to introduce new faces in order to encourage those
whose ideas are thought-provoking and who represent the cutting-edge," said the
Conference Co-Chairs.
"We believe our selection of Plenary Speakers and the introduction of the One World,
One Hope Lecture Series will help lift the cloud of doom-and-gloom which darkened the
outcome of previous International AIDS Conferences."
The Vancouver Conference has received a record 5,626 research abstracts from 125
countries- the most ever received in the International Conference on AIDS series
with the exception of.the 1993 Berlin Conference which did not limit each presenting
author to one abstract only.
Following the results of a three-day meeting in March of the 64-member Scientific
Program Committee, invitations have been sent to 500 people from around the world
to speak at the Conference. Additionally, members of the committee recommended
which topics will be featured at 132 different sessions and symposia that will occur
throughout the Conference Program.
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