Condoms, Parades Mark AIDS Day; China Gets Tough
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The world's two most populous nations  promised Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a disease  that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined  to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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China has halted a plan to distribute  free condoms on university campuses, quashing the AIDS  prevention effort only a week before World AIDS Day, state  media said Wednesday.
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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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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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An attack on AIDS in China through foreign and domestic programs, has departed markedly from an earlier reluctance to face the danger to the country's 1.3 billion people.
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World Aids Day was marked around the globe by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths.
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In a public display of commitment to  fighting the disease a day before World AIDS Day, state media  reported on Tuesday that China's President Hu Jintao shook  hands with patients during a visit to a hospital in the  capital.
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1145CET--As the World Aids Day is being celebrated around the world, females are being encouraged to be knowledgeable and self-confident to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS.
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The White House and US embassies around the world dimmed their lights Wednesday to commemorate World AIDS Day, this year dedicated to empowering women and girls in the fight against the disease.
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Two controversies flared on World AIDS Day as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence to avoid infection and British leader Tony Blair castigated religious bans on condoms.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao (2nd, L) shakes hands with an AIDS patient in a Beijing hospital on Nov. 30, 2004.-- Xinhua. On the eve of the World AIDS Day, Chinese President Hu Jintao shook hands with AIDS patients
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A day after the rest of the world marked World Aids Day on December 1, the Love Life Caravan blasted its way into the remote border outpost of Noe between Ivory Coast and Ghana.
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TORONTO -- A return to risky sexual practices by some gay men is leading to higher rates of HIV and AIDS infection in Ontario, Health Minister George Smitherman said Wednesday, World AIDS Day.
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On the eve of World AIDS Day, construction workers at the building site of Beijing's CCTV tower put down tools and picked up condoms and brochures touting safe sex and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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November 24 - World AIDS Day 2004 will be commemorated around the globe on Wednesday, December 1. World AIDS Day celebrates progress made in the battle against the epidemic - and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province has registered marked progress in HIV/AIDS prevention since it carried out six programs earlier this year to fight the deadly disease.
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Beijing will install about 1,000 condom vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on construction sites in the Chinese capital this month to fight the spread of AIDS, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.