Breakthrough hope in fight to stop spread of AIDS
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RESEARCHERS have shown that it may be possible to block transmission of the AIDS virus from men to women, it was revealed yesterday.
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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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The emergence of new and improved drugs, genetic engineering and the ancient surgical practice of circumcision are the latest weapons in the fight against AIDS, the International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.
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The United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS virus as &quot;a major breakthrough.&quot;
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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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Two new AIDS drugs, each of which works in a novel way, have proved safe and highly successful in large studies.
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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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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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Scientists hope to be able to use a harmless form of the AIDS virus to seek destroy cancer.
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Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a series of commentaries in this weekâs issue of THE LANCET outline the current and future priorities in the global effort to curb the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
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The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system that today's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses Â and they're exploring whether a drug already used to fight a parasite in developing countries just might hold a key to break in.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don&#39;t use a condom.
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Researchers have successfully blocked HIV transmission in monkeys with an experimental drug in the form of a topical cream or gel.
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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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Two University of Oklahoma scientists are starting research that they hope will someday lead to the development of a vaccine to combat the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
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The world's two most populous nations  promised on Wednesday to eradicate ignorance about AIDS, a  disease dismissed at first as a Western evil confined to drug  users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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A landmark international study involving top South African scientists has unlocked some of the human immune system&#39;s deepest secrets, boosting hopes of developing the world&#39;s first successful Aids vaccine.