BANGKOK: The International AIDS Conference opened here yesterday with UN chief Kofi Annan chiding world leaders for not doing enough to combat history's biggest epidemic, and warning that women are increasingly becoming its unwitting victims.
Three years after world leaders pledged at the United Nations to defeat the epidemic, there has been progress on many fronts, Annan said in a speech to nearly 20,000 policy makers, scientists, activists and celebrities.
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