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By Richard Holbrooke
On the day you read this column, an estimated 12,000 people worldwide will contract HIV. Ninety percent of them, about 10,800 people, will not learn they are infected until full-blown AIDS hits them -- in 2015. Until then, those people will unintentionally spread the virus that lies silently within each of them.
To commemorate World AIDS Day, World Bank hosted a seminar on the role of private sector partners in implementing innovative approaches to effectively combat HIV and AIDS.