XVI International AIDS Conference, 2006

The XVI International AIDS Conference was held in Toronto, Ontario, during the week of 13–18 August 2006.

This was the third time that Canada has hosted the International AIDS Conference, after Montreal in 1989 and Vancouver in 1996.

The conference was focused on the promises and progress made to scale-up treatment, care and prevention.

Well-known attendees and speakers included Governor General Michaëlle Jean, Stephen Lewis (the United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa), Bill and Melinda Gates (for the Gates Foundation), Richard Gere, Alicia Keys, and Bill Clinton.

[3] This development seriously hurt the credibility of the conference and many suggested that the Prime Minister's office may have been justified in its decision to not have Mr. Harper in attendance.

One of the entrances to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre during AIDS 2006
Banners of the AIDS 2006 conference could be found along many streets near the conference centre. Shown here is Front Street , just outside the conference centre.