In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to identify an event from the passage. An event is defined as a single word representing something that happened, is happening, or may happen. An event can be factual or hypothetical, positive or negative, certain or uncertain. While most events are based on verbs, an event can also be based on a noun (ex. storm, snow, rainfall) or a copula verb (is, was, been, etc.). The event must not be a pronoun or an adjective. For noun events with multiple words, use the last word in the phrase as event.

Q: Passage: The results were published in Johannesburg on Wednesday, one day ahead of the annual World AIDS Day that once again singles southern Africa out as "epicenter" of global AIDS pandemic. HIV prevalence among young adults in the 15-49 age group increased slightly from 15.6 percent in 2002 to 16.2 percent in 2005, which "may be an indication that the epidemic in the general population of South Africa has entered a phase of leveling off," said Olive Shisana, principal investigator and CEO of HSRC.

A: published
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Q: Passage: Reda Abdel Halim Farid, from the central Nile Delta region of Zifta, is the tenth person to have died in Egypt after contracting the deadly strain, the ministry said. H5N1 was first diagnosed in birds in Egypt in February, and the first case in humans was announced on March 18.

A: died
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Q: Passage: The official hoped that the seventh round of peace talks would be well exploited by the Darfur parties taking into consideration positive factors that have been available such as the formation of the government of national unity in the country and the support by the AU, the European Union (EU), the United States and the United Nations. Yassir Arman, representative of the former rebel the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the government delegation, said that the SPLM representatives in the talks were part of the government of national unity and would represent the whole country.

A:
hoped
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