MEXICO CITY (Xinhua): The 17th International Aids Conference wrapped up Friday in Mexico City with wide agreement to boost education on the disease and balance efforts for its prevention and treatment. "The conference has been very successful from the beginning," said President of the International Aids Society (IAS) Pedro Cahn. For the first time, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean agreed to promote sex education at schools across the region as a collective policy, Cahn said. "We finished very strengthened in the fight against AIDS," although there is still a lot of work to do, Cahn said.We have agreed to combine treatment with prevention, Cahn said, adding that they are supplementary elements in fighting the disease.

MEXICO CITY — While the world awaits findings from new AIDS prevention trials, millions of people are becoming infected because governments are overlooking studies showing that behavior modification works, AIDS experts said Tuesday.Among the behavior modifications the experts cited: promoting safer sex through delayed intercourse and the use of condoms, decreasing drug abuse, providing access to needle exchange programs and promoting male circumcision.ut none of the measures alone offer a simple solution to preventing infection with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, the experts said in a number of reports and news conferences at the 17th International AIDS Conference here.