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World AIDS Day 2006 Photos

Indonesian schoolgirls take part in an AIDS awareness demonstration in Jakarta, Friday, Dec. 1, 2006, on World AIDS Day. The World Health Organization called on Asia-Pacific leaders to make a greater effort in the fight against HIV/AIDS as the number of people with the virus continues to grow. In 2006, an estimated 8.6 million people in the region are living with HIV, 960,000 of whom were infected in the past year.

(Photo: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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