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International | International AIDS conferees leave science and sensibility at the door | Priya Abraham

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TORONTO — At the pavilion of the Toronto Youth Force, delegates to the 16th International AIDS Conference could scoop up as many free condoms as they wished. Late one afternoon during the six-day meeting, four teenage girls manned the busy desk behind piles of fliers promoting HIV prevention and blasting the United States' "Social Conservatives' War on Condoms."

Jessica Wilson, 16, sporting a bright yellow T-shirt emblazoned with the word "sex," said, "I don't feel that he does anything," in commenting on President George Bush's worldwide anti-AIDS efforts."He's more interested in the oil industry and making money off of war."