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Day 6
About this event: XVII International AIDS Conference

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First of all it’s just plain silly that it’s already day 6!

Secondly Sophie has been unnaturally worried about having needles poked in her head. Today we spent time in the traditional healing zone in the crazily vibrant global village – this fantastic area offered free acupuncture…so why not make the most of it? Probably the fact that you have to have needles poked into you actually…
Although Ruth is verrry excited about the good dreams she will be receiving tonight from having a needle in the ‘point of a thousand ghosts’. Otherwise know as the middle of your head. Along with this incredible benefit the healing of Sophie’s lower back has probably saved UNICEF considerable litigation costs from the amount of cameras and equipment we’ve been dutifully lugging around.

Pizza for breakfast managed to fuel a media mental day. We’ve been grabbing many an interesting interview for our sex education project and for you to sit back, relax and enjoy.

Today we saw one of the most interesting sessions so far with a panel of incredibly involved young people talking about youth participation and the HIV and AIDS response. We’ve seen so many experienced speakers this week in high profile positions that were no where near as engaging or eloquent as some of the panel today. Probing questions made for some very exciting and lively discourse.

We rounded off the day with another session on harm reduction which has become something that we feel should be central to U.K focus of our work. This was closely followed by an impressively horrible meal that’s we attempted to eat whilst being serenaded by a whining Mexican songstress. The fun we have. Thankfully Alice saved the night with some tasty, tasty churros and chocolate.

August 6, 2008 | 12:32 AM Comments  0 comments

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