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12:59 07/09/2010
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Care and support paper launched

Last week I attended the launch of an important publication: Care and Support: The Forgotten Pillar of the HIV Response . VSO was one of the main contributing organisations to this publication through the UK Consortium on AIDS and Development.

Keynote speakers at the event were BaronRead more »

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