Responding to AIDS requires that funding and attention go to help those who are actually infected or most vulnerable to infection, said Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of OSI's International Harm Reduction Development Program, in this address to the First Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference.
Malinowska-Sempruch discussed recent developments in and challenges to HIV prevention, and advocates six steps to change the course of the epidemic. The complete text is available for download, in English and in Russian.
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