But Maryland Democrat Elijah Cummings noted what he called a major improvement with job losses going from 700,000 per month at the start of the recession to 11,000 in November.

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So we thought this was the time to actually convene policy makers together with civil society with small communities of people living with HIV, to get together under one roof and start talking what's next.

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