Norway's princess in Vienna for AIDS conference
AFP
VIENNA- Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit will be in Vienna this weekend for an AIDS gala and the opening of a Youth Pavilion at the AIDS 2010 conference, organisers said Thursday.
The princess will be one of the guests of honour at a special gala being held in the Austrian parliament on the sidelines of the glitzy AIDS charity Life Ball this Saturday.
Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit
And on Monday Mette-Marit will open the Youth Pavillion of the World AIDS conference on July 18-23.
On the guest list of this year's Life Ball, an annual fashion-show-cum-party-event marking its 18th anniversary this year, are Hollywood actress Whoopi Goldberg and former US president Bill Clinton.
Last year, the Life Ball raised close to 1.5 million euros (two million dollars), which are distributed each year to various projects to combat the disease and help its victims.
The 18th World AIDS conference in Vienna will bring together some 25,000 experts, health professionals and policy makers to discuss progress in fighting AIDS and look at ways to provide further prevention and treatment against the HIV virus which causes it.
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