S.Africa uproar over call for president AIDS test
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South Africa's deputy health minister on Tuesday denied calling upon President Thabo Mbeki to take a public AIDS test, but repeated that she believed it was important for national leaders to be tested.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 17 -- President Bush made a long-distance appeal to Congress on Sunday to reauthorize and increase funding for his program to fight AIDS in Africa without tampering with controversial elements such as its emphasis on abstinence.
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South Africans tired of flowers and chocolates might want to give their loved-ones a more practical gift this Valentine's Day -- an AIDS test.
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South African president Thabo Mbekiâs ruling party, the African National Congress, has published a stinging attack on top US health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like âguinea pigsâ and lying to promote a key Aids drug.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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A public and potentially damaging war of words between South Africa&#39;s President Thabo Mbeki and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a revered figure from the time of the country&#39;s anti
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Activists are angry after Mozambique's Catholic Church leader says that some European-made condoms are deliberately infected with HIV.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party, the African National Congress, has accused the US government of treating Africans like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; by promoting the use of the anti-Aids drug nevirapine.
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More than 60 international experts on HIV/Aids call for the  resignation of South Africa's health minister.
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Sen. Barack Obama and his wife took HIV tests before a crowd of thousands Saturday at a clinic in Kenya in an effort to battle the fear and social stigmas that have slowed progress in fighting the spread of AIDS.
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Blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki after an urgent appeal in South Africa was destroyed because it was regarded as a health risk, it emerged yesterday.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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Two ethical controversies have flared into life on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence in their mix of programmes to fight AIDS and British leader Tony Blair lashed at religious bans on condoms.
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal
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South Africa's deputy health  minister on Tuesday denied calling upon President Thabo Mbeki  to take a public AIDS test, but repeated that she believed it  was important for national leaders to be tested.
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Malawi calls on all of its sexually active population to take an Aids test to help it fight the pandemic.
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President asks Congress to end squabbling, approve more funds to combat AIDS in Africa.