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Protests Mark AIDS Conference for Third Day Running

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

July 11, 2002

Protesters at the 14th International AIDS Conference disrupted the forum for the third day running Wednesday. About a dozen activists led by ACT UP blew whistles and overran the European Commission's booth, tearing up pamphlets and plastering it with orange protest stickers. Other protests occurred at the booths of the Catalonian government, GlaxoSmithKline and a Brazilian group. In front of a giant Coca-Cola bottle, protesters accused the soda company and London-based mining corporation Anglo American of refusing to provide treatment to HIV-infected workers in poor countries. On Tuesday, protesters jeered US Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson and French Health Minister Jean-Francois Mattei and took over Roche's booth.

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Adapted from:
Agence France Presse
07.10.02

  
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