Nations turn focus toward global AIDS pandemic for World AIDS Day
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WASHINGTON  - The international community turned the spotlight on the devastating and increasing impact of AIDS on women and girls to mark World AIDS Day.
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Each year on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe. It celebrates progress made in the battle against the disease and brings into focus the challenges that remain.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) joins with our global collaborators and colleagues to mark the 17th annual World AIDS Day this year with an emphasis
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World AIDS Day is an annual campaign to raise awareness of HIV AIDS worldwide and stimulate appropriate remedial action. It was first observed on December 01, 1988 following a recommendation by a summit of world health ministers.
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BEIJING: The world marked Aids Day yesterday, promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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New York City remains the epicenter of the epidemic on the US, even as the demographics shift. This yearâs World AIDS Day should give New Yorkers an opportunity to reflect on the incredible public health
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TOMORROW is World Aids Day, and this is the 17th year this annual event has taken place to raise awareness of one of the most serious global, national and local public health issues.
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The world marked AIDS Day on Wednesday,  promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease  that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined  to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Highly populated countries like India, China and Russia are at a key point in their fight against AIDS which could determine whether they have limited outbreaks or a large epidemic which could have a major effect on how the world treats the disease
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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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This Wednesday is World AIDS Day: It will be marked by concerts and candlelit vigils from Armenia to Zambia. The speeches and statistics will have a horrific familiarity: Two decades after
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 24, 2004 .- The Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers has released this statement for World AIDS Day.
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(OTTUMWA) Many around the world and in Ottumwa are holding special ceremonies for &quot;World AIDS Day,&quot; a special global event dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment
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LONDON: Asian countries are at great risk from AIDS, but countries like Pakistan, where prevalence is low, can ward off potential epidemics through prevention programmes if they act quickly, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.
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Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 -- U.N. health officials on Wednesday called on nations with severe AIDS epidemics to offer routine, confidential HIV tests to all patients at health-care facilities in hopes of dramatically expanding the number of those who know they have the virus.
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Every Dec. 1, the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic. This year, the focus is on women and girls.