Montreal AIDS conference organizer warns of ‘catastrophe’ if delegates denied visas

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Hundreds of delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America have not been issued visas to AIDS conference

Organizers of a major AIDS conference in Montreal next month say hundreds of delegates from Asia, Africa and Latin America are in limbo because the Canadian government has not issued them visas.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy, a professor of medicine at McGill University and local co-chair of the AIDS 2022 conference, says at least 400 delegates who received scholarships to attend the conference are still waiting for visas — about a third of all scholarship recipients. Jonathan Ssemanda, a PhD student at Makerere University in Uganda who is scheduled to present his research at the conference, says he has heard nothing since he applied for a Canadian visa more than two months ago.

 

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