(Oakland, CA USA)  International AIDS Society President-Elect Elly Katabira to join AIDS-Free World Co-Director Stephen Lewis and other global leaders during International AIDS Conference to call for an end to ignorance of epidemic's devastating impact among gay men worldwide.

Many of the world's leading experts on the health and human rights of men who have sex with men (MSM) will gather on Tuesday, July 20 for a press briefing to sound the alarm on the worsening global AIDS crisis among MSM -- and the role that tragic human rights violations and ignorance play in the spread of the epidemic.

The Vienna press briefing takes place during AIDS 2010, the XVIII International AIDS Conference (IAC). Only two percent of the Conference's sessions explicitly address the stunningly disproportionate impact of HIV and AIDS among gay men.

"This is shocking at a time when MSM are 19 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the general population in low- and middle-income countries, and when only one in five has access to the HIV prevention, care and treatment services they urgently need," said George Ayala, Executive Officer of the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF). 

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