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Leaders Urge AIDS Talk in Arab World

CAIRO, Egypt - Religious and political leaders Tuesday expressed their concern over the number of cases of HIV - the virus that causes AIDS - in the Arab world and stressed the need to break the region's silence over the deadly epidemic.

More than 300 Muslim and Christian leaders from 20 Arab states gathered in Cairo at the Arab League to discuss HIV and AIDS to help break the taboo that the disease has in the conservative Arab world.

Amat al-Alim al-Soswa, director of the U.N. Development Program's regional Arab bureau, said there were more than 67,000 new HIV cases in the Arab world last year and urged Arab leaders to mobilize quickly to contain the spread of the disease.

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