Specialists urge rethinking AIDS fight
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PRETORIA -- The global fight against AIDS has more than $6 billion to spend this year, employs hundreds of thousands of dedicated workers, and now has unparalleled attention from world leaders.
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African Union (AU) Commission has called on its member states to mainstream traditional medicine research into HIV/AIDS control programs and all aspects of development planning and implementation.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars and experts said in a report released today.
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ISLAMABAD: Aid workers from around the world on Wednesday urged the United Nations and womenâs and religious groups to help combat HIV/AIDS and ensure that people affected by the disease were deeply involved in the fight against the pandemic.
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South Africa's veteran Zulu leader Mangosutho Buthelezi, who has lost two children to AIDS, says the pandemic-blighted continent should stop sweeping the disease under the carpet.
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New US government guidelines say rape victims and others exposed to Aids should get anti-retroviral drugs.
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Officials are concerned by the detection of a rare strain of H.I.V. that appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS, but some experts are skeptical about the alarm.
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While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, which claim millions of lives each year.
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A controversial policy promoting   abstinence education to fight AIDS may be the best way to get   men to treat women better, which experts agree is key to   battling the AIDS epidemic, U.S. government AIDS officials said   on Wednesday.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.
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With the rates of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS climbing sharply worldwide, public-health experts and activists this week urged policymakers to go beyond the ABCs of AIDS prevention
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Public health experts accused the World Bank Tuesday of neglecting Africa's fight against tuberculosis, saying the institution should spend more fighting a disease whose resurgence in recent years has been linked to AIDS.
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An international team of researchers, including a researcher at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near Covington, has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV.
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As many as half a million lives  could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine  their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures  to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.
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Small victories are being won against  the AIDS virus, experts said on Wednesday as a report showed  that 10 times more people in Africa are getting life-saving HIV  drugs than did three years ago, but overall most people who  need treatment are still not getting it.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China are working on an AIDS vaccine to protect against three variants of HIV sweeping across south and west China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
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As an HIV conference opens, a study shows Aids deaths may be undermining southern Africa's democracy.