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AIDS 2008 - Mexico City 3-8 August 2008 - XVII International AIDS Conference. AIDS 2008
Quelque 22 000 délégués venus du monde entier assistent à la XVII Conférence internationale sur le sida, du 3 au 8 août à Mexico, au Mexique
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    The Plusnews blog tackled the rarely discussed phenomenon of conference sex ahead of the Mexico City International AIDS Conference this week. If you missed it, here is the link to Getting hot under the collar at conferences - and an extract…

    "Conference sex is a rarely discussed, but very real phenomenon. A convention in a far-off, exotic place with no familiar eyes watching or judging is the perfect setting for a secret tryst with that cute programme coordinator or that handsome monitoring and evaluation officer whose eye you caught during the morning's round table discussion."

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