UN AIDS conference in Kobe

KOBE-"If." It's a word that has barely escaped Moni Pen's thoughts since her husband died two years ago, weakened by meningitis, an opportunist disease triggered by AIDS.

If only she'd had the money for the necessary drugs. If only they'd been cheaper. If.

In Pen's native Cambodia, the kind of anti-retroviral treatment that has prolonged the lives of people with AIDS and HIV in richer nations is still very much a luxury beyond reach.

Still, that doesn't make her husband's premature death any easier to deal with.

Read the whole story at Peace Journalism

For more information about the The 7th United Nations International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Kobe, Japan from 1-5 July 2005, please
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