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July 24, 2010

AIDS 2010 Conference blog

AIDS 2010: "Here are the final numbers for AIDS 2010:

• 19,300 participants, including:
- 16,012 delegates
- 845 participants from Austria*
- 1,218 participants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- 848 scholarship recipients
- 1,276 media delegates
• 770 volunteers
• 197 countries represented
• 10,831 abstracts submitted, 6,238 abstracts accepted
• 248 sessions (59 non-abstract driven sessions, 79 workshops, 110 abstract-driven sessions)
• 19 plenary speeches
• 18 special sessions
• 279 Global Village activities, including 55 sessions, 95 NGO booths and 27 Networking Zones
• 151 exhibits
• 127 satellite meetings
• 10 scientific prizes and awards
• 12,324 Facebook fans, 8,420 #AIDS2010 tweets and 48 blog posts
• 71,043 visits to www.aids2010.org (since Sunday, 18 July)
• 12,725+ Vienna Declaration signatures (as of Friday, 22 July)

* Does not include general public participation in the Global Village, which is difficult to estimate."

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