News bulletin – answers

New efforts to find AIDS vaccine

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1. The conference lasts for 4 days. T (4-day conference)
2. 900 scientists are present. F: scientists and policy makers
3. South Africa has the highest number of HIV infections. T
4. Barbara Hogan is pushing for the discovery of new treatments. F: for a vaccine (to prevent the disease)
5. It can take anything from 50 to 100 years to get an effective vaccine. F: 15 to 100 (a century)
6. More than 5 million people in South Africa live with HIV. T: 5.5 million
7. Little progress has been made over the last 25 years. F: a lot of progress has been made
8. Everybody needs to greatly increase their efforts to find a vaccine. T: ‘redouble’ efforts
9. Aids first became widely known in the 1970s. F: the 1980s a quarter of a century ago
10. 33.2 million people in Africa are living with HIV. F: 33.2 million worldwide