News reports from around the world on the many issues
of HIV/AIDS.
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AIDS
battle reaches new climax in Asia with aggressive condom
policy
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In
an aggressive policy to stem the growing HIV/AIDS problem, the
World Health Organisation (WHO) wants sex workers in Asia to
adopt this uncompromising stand when facing clients.
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AIDS
edict fuels dispute
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Man
with disease banned from using pool at mobile home park
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AIDS News
April 2001
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Nigeria
AIDS news Service
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AIDS News
March 2001
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Nigeria
AIDS news Service
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AIDS News May 2001
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Nigeria
AIDS news Service
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AIDS
to Hit Workforce in '03
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South
Africa's economy will be hard hit in 2003 as hundreds of
thousands of HIV-infected workers develop full-blown Aids, and
few companies have prepared for this.
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AIDS,
Hunger, Terror Threaten World Security
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Even
as the world gears up for another major world conflict the UN
says world security is threatened not only by the crises
currently dominating the headlines but by AIDS, hunger and the
"dreams of obscure vengeance" from political
terrorists "whose only achievements are the sudden
screams of innocent people."
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AIDS Transmission Through Blood Supply is Discussed at
Internews Nigeria Roundtable |
“HIV/AIDS
is not a sinners’ affliction,” declared Evangelist Peter Ikiti
to journalists attending an educational roundtable organized
by Internews’ Local Voices Project in Abuja about the safety
of Nigeria’s blood supply. |
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Allies
of AIDS Among warring factions in Congo, disease is mutating
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Kampala,
Uganda-It was born out of war, spread in war and may now be
mutating into an explosive nightmare amid war. HIV, soldiers,
rape and prostitutes: These are the elements that spawned and
spread Africa's horrendous AIDS epidemic.
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Attacks
shift away from condoms in HIV prevention
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In
a direct attack on the Bush administration's stance on HIV
prevention, authors from a leading US sexual health and family
planning organisation asserts that consistent use of condoms
can reduce the risk of HIV transmission in discordant couples
to “near zero"
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Bug Chasers
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Carlos
nonchalantly asks whether his drink was made with whole or
skim milk. He takes a moment to slurp on his grande Caffe
Mocha in a crowded Starbucks, and then he gets back to
explaining how much he wants HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Bush
Administration HIV/AIDS Report Card
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As the Bush Administration's
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) convenes,
national, regional and local HIV/AIDS organizations have come
together and find that President George W. Bush and his
Administration are not making the grade in providing the
strong leadership, coordinated national strategy and funding
necessary to combat the AIDS epidemic both at home and abroad.
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Bush
AIDS Choices Faulted by Gay Doctors
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The Gay and Lesbian Medical
Association has expressed strong reservations with several new
appointees named by the Bush administration to serve on the
35-member Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
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Bush
and AIDS Drugs Executive Order
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That's in line with his
predecessors, the study said. George Bush added 20,148 pages
in his last three months, Ronald Reagan 14,448 pages and Jimmy
Carter 24,531 pages.
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Bush
Considers Reversing Executive Order to Africa
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President Bush may reverse former
President Clinton's executive order that allows sub-Saharan
African governments to import generic versions of HIV/AIDS
medications from other countries where the drugs are
manufactured while still under U.S. patent, Bloomberg
News/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
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Bush
To Revoke Exec Order on Intellectual Property Rights and
HIV/AIDS Medicines in Africa
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President Bush may reverse former
President Clinton's executive order that allows sub-Saharan
African governments to import generic versions of HIV/AIDS
medications from other countries where the drugs are
manufactured while still under U.S. patent, Bloomberg
News/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports
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Bush's
HIV program excludes specific Groups
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The Bush administration is
offering a new multi-million dollar HIV prevention and drug
counseling initiative that makes public money available
exclusively to religious applicants, a breach of assurances
made concerning his "faith-based" community services
plan and an unconstitutional violation of the law, a national
church-state watchdog group charged Thursday.
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Cheap
drugs 'not enough to fight AIDS in Africa'
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A
hard-won battle for access to cheap generic drugs leaves poor
African countries ill-prepared to implement nationwide
programmes to treat Aids sufferers, experts working on health
projects on the continent warn.
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China
Discrimination Fuels HIV/AIDS Crisis
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Widespread
discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS is fueling the
spread of the epidemic in China, Human Rights Watch charged in
a new report released today.
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Churches
gather to coordinate action plan against HIV/AIDS
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A
coalition of Finnish and African churches has been meeting in
Dar es Salaam over the past week to try and pool resources and
create a strategy in the battle against HIV/AIDS
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Conservatives
to co-chair Bush's AIDS office
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Dubbing previous AIDS prevention
strategies a failure, Coburn told the Post that new approaches
need to be adopted. "Condoms are fairly effective against
HIV if people will use them," he said. "We have to
ask a question: Are people going to use them? ... We have had
a strategy that says that's the answer ... and HIV infection
is going up."
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Despite
outcry, Bush's AIDS office gutted
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In early February, the Bush
administration was thrown into a very public and highly
embarrassing scramble over published reports that the White
House intended to abolish executive level offices on AIDS and
race relations.
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Ford Motor Company response to an article concerning the
Right Wing’s Homophobic Agenda |
We value
all people – regardless of their race, religion, gender,
sexual orientation and cultural or physical differences |
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Gay
republican named to Bush's AIDS office
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Evertz's selection was hailed by
gay Republicans as proof that their policy of engagement with
a party traditionally hostile to gay concerns is an effective
political strategy for the community. But the choice of Evertz
is also expected to generate some controversy.
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Gender, HIV/AIDS and Rights-A training manual for the
media |
Media practitioners’ gender prejudices and biases are one
of the major blocks to the diverse portrayals of women, and to
their voices in the media. Journalists and editors are
socialized as men and as women, long before they choose
journalism as a career. This socialization influences
how the media reports on, portrays and provides access to
women. |
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George
W Bush is still our enemy
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George W. Bush, America's first
court-appointed president, is still stupid. It was easy to
forget that fact in the aftermath of those horrific September
11 events. After that day, the nation's journalists and
pundits seemed reluctant to criticize or question the actions
of this president or his administration. It's a good thing to
support our president in times of chaos, but it's folly to
forget that this particular president is both insidiously
manipulative and breathtakingly dumb.
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Global
AIDS: Myths and Facts
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Myth:
The best way to control AIDS in the developing world is by
putting all available resources into stronger prevention
programs. In developing countries, costly treatment for people
already infected with HIV should wait until prevention
programs have been fully funded and deployed.
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Global
tensions grow over AIDS
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The
number of people infected with HIV/Aids will grow
significantly by the end of the decade, reaching up to 75
million in the world's five most populous countries and
continuing to decimate millions in Central and Southern
Africa, a new US intelligence report says
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Head
of AIDS Advisory Panel Ousted
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Sources close to the
deliberations, however, insisted Ware was moved to avoid
further embarrassment over the selection of Thacker, who has
described AIDS as the "gay plague" and homosexuality
as a "death style." Thacker withdrew his nomination
on Jan. 23.
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HIV
Prevention Bill Attacked by AIDS Organizations
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The chief provision in the bill
is the creation of a national HIV reporting system. According
to NAPWA, states would be required to end anonymous testing
and begin reporting the names and case histories of every new
HIV diagnosis to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
26 states in the country already supply this information to
the CDC.
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In
Maine, AIDS, HIV Cases on Rise
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State
officials say the number of people in Maine living with
HIV/AIDS has never been higher, reflecting a nationwide
trend. State Bureau of Health statistics show more than 500
people diagnosed with AIDS in Maine and 700 with HIV.
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Influence
of the Church in Bringing About Change
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Statistics
of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Namibia are not impressive. The
figures are worrying. However, a holistic approach to fighting
the pandemic may reverse the trend, if the ongoing efforts are
maintained or intensified.
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Lynne
Cheny defends Evertz appointment
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Evertz's appointment was loudly
condemned by social and religious conservatives angry over the
Bush White House's willingness to select an openly gay man to
run national policy on HIV and AIDS.
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Madison
Ave. Has Growing Role In the Business of Drug
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Article on how Madison Avenue,
whose television ads have helped turn some prescription drugs
into billion-dollar products, is expanding role in drug
development; lastest example is pain drug Bextra
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Mobilizing
Media-Activism and Community Participation in Stigma Reduction
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This
two-year project is designed to reduce HIV/AIDS-related stigma
and discrimination in the media and other identified
communities in Nigeria. Launched by Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS),
the project aims to harness the capacity of the Nigerian media
and communities as a potential force for change to reduce the
high levels of HIV-related stigma and discrimination in the
country.
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NEEDLE
STICK RISK
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Hundreds of medical workers
become infected with the AIDS or hepatitis viruses from
accidental punctures each year.
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Powell,
on MTV show, urges condom use to prevent AIDS
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Fielding particularly sober
questions from a youth audience normally tuned in to watch the
latest hip-hop videos, Secretary of State Colin Powell
explained the war on terrorism to MTV viewers around the world
Thursday and stressed the supremacy of American democratic
values.
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Prescription
Drug Sales Increased By Nearly 20% Last Year in US
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Retail prescription drug spending
in the US increased for the fifth straight year in 2000,
primarily reflecting higher sales of a relatively small number
of drugs.
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Press
Release WHO |
This is a
critical moment in the history of HIV/AIDS. There is
more money, more political will and more attention being paid
to this killer disease than ever before. And yet, more people
than ever are dying of AIDS and becoming infected with HIV. By
using HIV treatment programs to strengthen existing prevention
programs and improve health systems, the international
community has a unique opportunity to change the course of
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Quarantine
of PLWHAS in Mumbai Airport
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The
following is the details for yet another shocking incident and
that too by the government officials
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Report on AIDS-personal |
I could
not make my conclusion based on that fact, but the graph for
both genders does show there is some relationship between
the number of new AIDS orphans and the number of new AIDS
deaths each year. Unfortunately, the data was not available
but I think if it was the correlation would prove my
hypothesis. |
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Researchers
fake AIDS study data
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Three
Maryland researchers have admitted fabricating interviews with
teenagers for a study on AIDS prevention that received more
than $1 million in federal funds.
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Revised
Guidelines Will Ease Selection of HIV/AIDS Treatments
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A new update of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Guidelines
for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults
and Adolescents will make it easier for clinicians and
HIV-infected individuals to select an appropriate treatment
regimen from among the expanding choices of anti-HIV
medications.
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Scientists
Pursue Origins of HIV
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Researchers
have identified another piece in the puzzle of how HIV emerged
from the wilderness to spawn one of the most devastating
epidemics humanity has ever known.
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Serological
findings amongst first-time blood donors in Yaounde
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Blood
safety remains an issue of major concern in transfusion
medicine in developing countries where national blood
transfusion services and policies, appropriate infrastructure,
trained personnel and financial resources are lacking. This is
aggravated by the predominance of family and replacement,
rather than regular benevolent, nonremunerated donors
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South
Africa- perspectives on AIDS-Media
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Media
advocacy provides a framework for shifting the focus of
health-oriented news reporting to policy issues addressing
public health. The
aim of media advocacy is to increase the capacity of groups or
societies to act in a manner conductive to their goals
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Strategies
to Improve Access to Sterile Syringes for Injection Drug Users
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The high prevalence of infection
with HIV and other blood-borne pathogens in injection drug
users (IDUs) is directly related to the lack of syringe
access. Needle exchange programs (NEPs), syringe prescription,
and syringe deregulation are 3 approaches to increasing access
to sterile syringes for IDUs.
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Swapo
Man proposes 'Disclosure' of HIV when person is Buried
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"I
would like to propose that the internationally respected
medical norms of no disclosure of sickness be relaxed when it
comes to HIV-AIDS pandemic. That is to say if one dies of
AIDS, it should be stated in the death certificate and
mourners be informed during burial service [that the person
died from AIDS]," he said.
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The
Crime of Asking Questions at an AIDS Panel Discussion
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The
student moderators would be unfailingly polite and respectful,
and everyone would go away believing that they could play a
small part in mitigating an enormous medical tragedy. Well, I
was right, except that possibly some members of the audience
did actually leave with some nagging questions about HIV/AIDS.
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The
Rebirth of the Nonprofit Sector in Post-communist Eastern
Europe
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The nonprofit sector is
re-emerging in Eastern Europe as a major part of democratic
society after more than four decades in the shadows of
communism. Profound political, economic and social reforms in
the region present challenges to the development of a strong,
indigenous nonprofit sector.
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UNICEF
report on Africa's orphaned generations
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The
HIV/Aids epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned a
generation of children - and now seems set to orphan
generations more.
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White
House to keep offices on AIDS, race relations
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The Bush administration will not
scrap offices on AIDS policy and race relations, with a
spokesman describing Chief of Staff Andrew Card's comments to
USA Today that the offices would be closed " a
"misunderstanding."
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Why
Are Latino Gay and Bisexual Men at Risk?
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Some 17 percent of all AIDS cases
in the United States are among Latinos, although Latinos
constitute only about 9percent of the population. Of these
cases, 40 percent are among gay and bisexual men.1 Why?
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