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Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph discusses how AIDS impacts women at the D.C. Connects exhibit inside the Global Village at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Northwest on Monday, July 23. Twenty-five thousand people have descended upon the nation’s capital to attend the XIX International AIDS Conference which runs through July 27. /Photo by Shevry Lassiter
AIDS Take Center Stage at Conference By Barrington M. Salmon WI Staff Writer Ennis Jackson, Dr. Margo Simon and Jannis Evans are among the thousands of delegates in town for the first global AIDS conference in the District in 22 years. They have joined more than
25,000 people from the U.S. and around the world who will spend much of this week at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown. Their excitement at the start of the conference Sunday evening was palpable. Simon said it’s fitting that the District of Columbia is once
again hosting the largest gathering of scientists, researchers, people living with HIV/AIDS, activists, diplomats, philanthropists, elected officials and entertainers at the XIX International AIDS Conference. “I’m here to be a part of a monumental conference for so many reasons,” said Simon, a
Bronx physician who practices family medicine and serves people living with HIV/AIDS. “It’s such an exciting event with people united by their commitment to eliminating this excruciating disease. I have come as much for inspiration as knowledge.” Delegates and conference leaders spoke glowingly of their
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approval of President Barack Obama’s lifting of the travel ban in 2009. They said now, the stigma of having the disease no longer prohibits those living with HIV/AIDS from coming to America and they call Obama’s action a positive
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