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Blood
tainted by Hepatitis C used in transfusion
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The Japanese Red Cross Society has confirmed the first case
in which donated blood containing the hepatitis C virus passed
its screening tests and was used in a blood transfusion,
according to officials of the organization.
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| Blood transfusions suspected in 29 hepatitis cases |
Twenty-nine
sufferers of hepatitis-B virus (HBV) or hepatitis-C virus (Hepatitis C Virus)
may have been infected through blood transfusions conducted
across the country in the April-June period, the Health, Labor
and Welfare Ministry warned Tuesday. |
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Hepatitis C victims sue
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A group of people infected with hepatitis C virus from
treatment with virus-tainted blood products-typically during
childbirth or through transfusions during surgery-have filed
damage suits in Tokyo and Osaka district courts against the
central government and three pharmaceuticals companies that
distributed the blood products |
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Hepatitis B Hits Japanese Football Team
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A study in
the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine
describes five cases of acute hepatitis B and six cases of
asymptomatic infection that occurred on a 74-member football
team at the University of Okayama in Japan.
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Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Japan |
Trafficking in humans is a revived form of slavery
affecting virtually all regions of the world, which has grown
steadily since the 1980s to become one of the most lucrative
businesses of international criminal organizations. A
recent estimate indicates that trafficking engulfs between one
and two million people each year worldwide, especially women
and children, generating billions of dollars in profits to the
criminal networks that control it. |
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Japanese
Charity Plans AIDS Home
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Ashinaga,
a Japanese charity organisation, plans to build a modern home
for AIDS orphans in Uganda.
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Japanese Release AIDS Statistics
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A total of
5,121 people in Japan have reportedly tested positive for HIV
through December of 2002, an increase of 139 from three months
earlier, Japan's health authorities said in a statement
Friday.
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Japanese
woman dies after Hepatitis B infection from tainted
blood
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The cause of the woman's death could not be confirmed
because she also suffered from a circulatory condition, but
the Japanese Red Cross Society confirmed the virus in her
blood genetically matched that of one of her donors, the
top-selling Yomiuri Shimbun said.
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Knowledge
and attitudes toward AIDS among female college students in
Nagasaki, Japan
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A
structured questionnaire containing questions concerning
knowledge about AIDS, sources of information, beliefs and
attitudes toward people with HIV/AIDS was administered during
sessions set up for that purpose.
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The
Japan Times: Dec. 17, 2003
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The Japanese
Red Cross Society has confirmed the first case in which
donated blood containing the hepatitis C virus passed its
screening tests and was used in a blood transfusion, according
to officials of the organization. The contaminated blood was
donated in western Japan in November 2000 and the Red Cross
detected hepatitis C genes in a follow-up test on the
individual blood samples it kept.
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Trends
in HIV and AIDS based on HIV/AIDS surveillance data in Japan
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In recent
years a decline in the number of new AIDS cases has been
observed in several industrialized countries. It is important
to know whether these recent trends observed in North American
and Europe are also occurring in Japan
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Youth
NGO Receives Japanese Support
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The Youth
Organization Against Drugs (OJCD), a Mozambican NGO dedicated
to the fight against drug abuse and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has
received from the Japanese government about 75,000 US dollars
worth of support for its activities.
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