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Djamel Ould Abbes, the Algerian Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform speaks during a press conference in Algiers on April 2, 2012. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and the Algerian government have agreed to establish a center for AIDS research and prevention in Tamanrasset, in the south of Algeria. The officials announced that the center would be open by 2013. AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE (Photo by FAROUK BATICHE / AFP)