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Revenue from Uganda's Minerals 2010- 2018

San Francisco and Oakland to host AIDS 2020

The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced that San Francisco, California, in partnership with nearby Oakland, will host the 23rd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2020). To find the best host for each International AIDS Conference, the IAS conducts an extensive, open-bid process that begins 18 months before a decision is made. For AIDS 2020, we engaged more than 20 cities across the world, starting in 2016. Our process involves an extensive evaluation that determines each city’s ability to house the meeting and its delegates, commitment to supporting scientific research and implementation, and inclusion of civil society and communities living with HIV in their local response. Each city is required to represent a cross-section of policymakers, scientific researchers and civil society as part of the bid. It is always our preference to represent different geographies in hosting the International AIDS Conference. For many years, we were fortunate to identify w

World Conference on Tobacco or Health 2018 announces key science

Breaking research on e-cigarettes, the impact of  tobacco point-of-sale display bans, the growing trend towards flavoured cigarettes and the financial impact of smoking on economies and individuals feature in the scientific programme  of the 17 th  World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) Regional science presented at the conference includes smoking and HIV and TB in sub-Saharan Africa and  ante-natal tobacco smoke exposure   in South Africa Thursday, 1 February, 2018  (Cape Town, South Africa)-- Organisers today announced the scientific programme of the   17 th  World Conference on Tobacco or Health  (WCTOH) to be held in Cape Town, South Africa,  7-9 March  this year. The growing debate amongst public health practitioners around tobacco harm reduction is reflected in the conference scientific programme with research on e-cigarettes featuring prominently including a much anticipated study on  Electronic cigarette use and conventional cigarette smoking initiation among